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This blog was inspired by First 50 words where you freewrite from a single word prompt. I use random words or images to create flash fiction in formats ranging from twitter postcards to short short stories.
Always struggled with the nature Haiku but in seeing that a Senryu can draw from these approaches, I am getting this form more
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the famine hand-out queue
nobody asks
" traces of peanuts?"
2. Word Play – using words in an unusual [and perhaps technically incorrect] way or using a circumstance in an usual way
Garden Society lady,
half a century ago
maybe a blushing rose
3. Slapstick Humour Derived from Human Behaviour [Chaplinesque Humour] or strange situations
wishing well
a beggar falls over
reaching for quarters
4. Uncharacteristic Behaviour of particular groups
psychiatrists' dinner
they all dance wildly with
the belly dancers
5. Inventive or Creative Fantasy or Clever Juxtaposition
another sake --
the cranes on the porcelain
start to fly
6. Reflections on Nature/Animals in the Issa mode
first gnats, as if
they don't have enough company
join me on my walk