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Haiku is a Japanese verse form that relies on brevity and simplicity to convey its message. It is usually three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, and frequently includes natural images or themes. It is believed to have been first written in the seventeenth century and is based on a Zen Buddhist philosophy of simplicity and the idea of perfection that excludes the extraneous. Senryus are haikus related to social issues/comedic topics...not nature. The following are my attempts at both (in no particular order):
Sheen golden stretches
Life, engineered
like
Mankind's brevity
"We can overthrow
Man, brainchild
of love
Weapon with whiskers
Recipe for love:
dying stick men,
like
he can't find
his niche
Hungry eyes beg
for
"I'm not related
petals of chaste
white
In fields of flowers
Hunger unfed,
Greed.
how I marvel at
As life's vigor
fades
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