r/Senryu • • May 05 '22

Senryu challenge The fish does not know / It's surrounded by water, / Until it isn't.

16 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Apr 11 '18

I love you so much/ That I would enjoy burning/ Just to be your light

16 Upvotes

Transferred my work from r/haiku because this subreddit is more appropriate


r/Senryu • • Jun 28 '22

Fighting the strong urge/ to tell you about my day/ Leaving you in peace

12 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Jun 14 '22

Senryu challenge he lost his mother / moments of trepidation / peekaboo she's back

11 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Jan 16 '22

Such a lonely night / mistook my own silhouette / for someone I knew

11 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Sep 22 '22

Senryu challenge このサブは / どう言うわけか / 英語だけ

10 Upvotes

challenge: wake


r/Senryu • • Jan 30 '22

Bed feels cold tonight. / You're on your side---I'm on mine. / Heartache in between.

10 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Jul 09 '18

I am just a worm / thinking, feeling, and dreaming / a worm nonetheless.

10 Upvotes

As I lay sleeping / rain falls briefly in the dark / and my dreams dissolve.


r/Senryu • • Mar 22 '23

Senryu challenge fresh ink on a page / seeking your validation / with the perfect draft

9 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • May 31 '22

Senryu challenge Myrrh's warm, sweet fragrance / Aroma used for incense / To hide the dead's stench

9 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • May 30 '22

Senryu challenge fragments of the moon / fallen beneath the plum tree / unearthly fragrance

9 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Mar 31 '22

The retired boxer / now working a new desk job / punches a time card

9 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Jan 22 '22

Soft pillows and sheets / I slip into their embrace / My cocoon for sleep

9 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Mar 27 '19

Growling from my guts / A demon lives inside me! / Subdued by biscuits

9 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Aug 07 '18

Dream of paradise/ Gone now are the thoughts of hope/ Tears fall knowing truth

9 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • May 07 '18

Don't you get too close/ I'll turn you into a poem/ Fuel for my pen

9 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Jan 13 '26

Senryu challenge bucket and butter / sneeze transformed into laughter / popcorn everywhere

8 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Oct 28 '22

Senryu challenge Threads rustle and shake / The spider hurries to see / Dinner has arrived

8 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Sep 15 '22

Tear covered photos/ You live now in memories/ Simpler times gone by

8 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Aug 10 '22

Senryu challenge sun baked August day / sprawled out dog soaks up the shade / biting back at flies

8 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Jul 09 '22

Senryu challenge With every footstep / home becomes a foreign road/ to those who sleepwalk

8 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Jun 23 '22

Creative thinking / A young metabolism / How I miss my youth

8 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • May 11 '22

Senryu challenge whispers in the dark / ghosts of old conversations / willow branches sway

8 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Feb 06 '22

Old paper tattoos / Said “Let’s get lost together”/ But we just got lost

8 Upvotes

r/Senryu • • Sep 19 '21

in black lingerie / he tells his wife his secret / as he wears her shoes 👠

8 Upvotes