The prompt for We Write Poems this week was various kinds of love. I didn’t write all of these senryu in response to that prompt, but it’s my favourite form (you might say I love it) and I have enough about love that I can share with you. There’s also a short poem I wrote as a teenager in love on my South Africa – A Love/Hate Story blog.
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Talking Point
My son discovered
he loves Shakespeare: now we have
something in common.
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Christmas Eve With Dad
He lived and loved, laughed,
then sighed. He held my hand. He
held my hand. He died.
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A Note For My Mum
An old woman passes me,
smelling of fags and
booze. I grieve, for she’s not you.
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Friendship
Geese guard a stricken
comrade until it dies or
flies again – how neece.
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Adult Yearner
Married man longs for
someone. It can never be.
She is his wishtress.
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Unconditional Love
I expected to
feel it for my children, but
not for my pet dogs.
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Empty Nest
Forlorn housewife. Heart
heavy like wet washing on
the line. Mothers’ fate.
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Not-So-Modern Marriage
Selfish man: your wife
will fetch carry clean feed love
you: stupid woman.
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Two Beautiful Things
A bloody baby
and his brother, screaming their
way into my heart.
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The Laughing Housewife 
What a wonderful, eclectic collection of some aspects of love. Which of your boys is going to shudder at the last two photographs?
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Both of them; there’s one of each.
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Couldn’t you tell? 🙂
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Fantastic and fun haikus.
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Thanks Diane
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Brilliant reading about the variety of love.
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And a lovely compliment in return. Thank you.
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I loved this post!
destined wanderings
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Thanks 🙂
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I don’t believe I have ever read Senryu form outside of Japanese poets. What a fantastic rush of human emotions and delicate observations. Tilly you have written a train of outstanding poetic comments on the personal human condition. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your efforts. More.
Regards,
Don
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Don, I’m speechless. Thank you for your kind and generous remarks.
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Each of these is so full of meaning. I love them all!
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Thank you 🙂
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As always so much to enjoy with these verses.
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Thank you Charles 🙂
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Tilly, these are all lovely.
Pamela
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Thank you Pamela 🙂
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‘A Note To Mum’ is one of the best new poems I’ve read in a while. It is a singularity.
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Thank you Harry 🙂
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I also loved ‘A note to mum”, and the line “screaming their way into my heart” really resonates with me. So much feeling in so few words, fantastic!
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Thank you. Do you have a blog so I can return your visit?
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I really enjoyed these tight comments. Funny, sad and touching. And very clever. Well done. (I could have done without the pictures though!)
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Sorry about that! I have been dying to use them.
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LOVELY indeed thanks for sharing this
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It’s in the “collection” most especially, good as each may be individually, that a greater sense of real living range comes into tune. Quietly breathtaking. (And PS. in reading your “facts about me”, that’s really rather poetic too! Nice.) Thanks for sharing these.
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I like your use of the senryu in this series… I liked them all, but my favorites being “Christmas Eve with Dad” and “Note for My Mum”. Both of these evoked a sadness within me, and I noticed your use of internal rhyme in a few spots, which was well executed.
-Nicole
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