RE: Mizu No Oto - Every Image Has Its Haiku Contest - WEEK #4

So "Mizu No Oto" are haiku's about nature, and the "senryū" are haiku's people related. Thank you. Do they have a specific title for haiku's about animals also?

resting head on paws
waiting by the empty gate
home at last, tail wags

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bananafish (61) 7 years ago

I'll call in my help some words from Valeria Simonova, a senryu scholar:

A senryu is not the transmission of an important aesthetic experience in which man merges with nature (as in haiku), but a shrewd penetration into the world of human nature, weak and imperfect, but also tender and sometimes moving. A poet of senryu extracts from his quiver irony, humor, sarcasm, parody, and with these arrows he hits the reader.
According to a famous saying, "if a haiku is the finger that indicates the moon, a senryu is an elbow in the ribs".

A haiku about animals is simply a haiku, but if you talk about an animal to make a metaphor about the human condition, then it can be a senryu.
For example, you can write about ants running amok outside and inside the anthill, and let it be understood that they are like commuters at rush hour.

Sorry for the long and boring comment, hope I could clarify you something ...

(Marco)

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f3nix (59) 7 years ago

Welcome to Mizu no Oto @bashadow! A nice message about being in charge of our own existence.

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