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A book of poetry forms, and how to write them.
#953198 added February 26, 2019 at 3:27am
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Haiku & Senryu
The haiku is one of my favorites. It's a Japanese poem, typically about nature, that consists of seventeen syllables and three lines. It has a 5,7,5 syllable count. (5 syllables for the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and 5 for the last line).

I enjoy stringing multiple haikus into one poem, where each stanza is a haiku.

Here are some haiku examples from my own work:

Frozen Idaho
blessed with winter kisses and
abandoned snowmen.
~+~+~+~+~+~+~

Sledding down snowdrifts.
Stocking caps pulled tight over
aching, frozen ears.
~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~

The ice cream cone trees
engage in vanilla fights
with the carolers.


Extended haiku here:
 
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Another extended haiku. This one is also acrostic:
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A Genre/Acrostic/Haiku for a contest
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Senryu

I was going to make this a separate entry until I looked up exactly what a senryu was. Form-wise it's identical to a haiku, except for subject matter.

Haikus tend to focus on nature as a subject, while the senryu is nicknamed "the human haiku", meaning it focuses on human foibles, and sometimes can be satirical and darkly humorous. I have not written a senryu so I have no examples to share (for now)
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