Friday, January 20, 2017

Form Friday: Senryu

Istiqlál (Independence), 3 Sulṭán (Sovereignty), 173 BE - Friday, January 20, 2017 AD about 12:58 PM Pacific Standard Time 

Eggs over easy 
The smoke alarm goes off 
Time for breakfast 

A Senryu is similar to an  haiku except for the subject. The subject of a haiku concerns nature while a senryu is about human beings and their life. I got the idea for the above poem when breakfast was cooking. The smoke alarm in the living room goes off whenever we fry something on the stove. Cooking in the microwave or the electric oven doesn't set the smoke alarm off, but every time we fry something on top of the stove it set off the smoke alarm. 


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