tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801086690418146784.post662418495579660358..comments2023-05-13T11:10:32.989+01:00Comments on Random Short Stories: VacationJohn (@bookdreamer)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11576434749272275190noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801086690418146784.post-68303582632706232722008-08-05T22:07:00.000+01:002008-08-05T22:07:00.000+01:00Always struggled with the nature Haiku but in seei...Always struggled with the nature Haiku but in seeing that a Senryu can draw from these approaches, I am getting this form more<BR/><BR/>1. Reflections/Observations of fickle or unusual or hypocritical or silliness of human behaviour<BR/><BR/>the famine hand-out queue<BR/>nobody asks<BR/>" traces of peanuts?"<BR/><BR/>2. Word Play – using words in an unusual [and perhaps technically incorrect] way or using a circumstance in an usual way<BR/><BR/>Garden Society lady,<BR/>half a century ago<BR/>maybe a blushing rose<BR/><BR/>3. Slapstick Humour Derived from Human Behaviour [Chaplinesque Humour] or strange situations<BR/><BR/>wishing well<BR/>a beggar falls over<BR/>reaching for quarters <BR/><BR/>4. Uncharacteristic Behaviour of particular groups<BR/><BR/>psychiatrists' dinner <BR/>they all dance wildly with <BR/>the belly dancers <BR/><BR/>5. Inventive or Creative Fantasy or Clever Juxtaposition<BR/>another sake --<BR/><BR/>the cranes on the porcelain<BR/>start to fly<BR/><BR/>6. Reflections on Nature/Animals in the Issa mode <BR/><BR/>first gnats, as if<BR/>they don't have enough company<BR/>join me on my walkJohn (@bookdreamer)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11576434749272275190noreply@blogger.com