Category: Senryū

Senryū 2025.05.05

Steadily creeping
Future unpredictable
Feels more familiar

Wanderer returns:
I wonder how my face now
reflects in his eyes

Journey concluded:
Has travel changed the view
in my direction

An important friend returns from a long journey.

Small round white escape
Summons temporary death
Bringing short relief

Waiting for closed eyes
I wonder who the deep black
Will bring me tonight

Eyes and hands reach with
Nowhere to go but forward
Blind to one’s own heart

8:50 pm
On observing the particular journey of one close and dear.

Wishing for long nights
To stay with me forever
I hide in the dark

(On the compulsion to hide from the world.)

Seeking clear paths to
free everyone I’ve tangled:
I see only one

Night calls me to bed
The promise of snow lingers
Most unwelcome guest

11:59 pm

Poems elusive,
poems that will never be:
tonight I mourn them

(On expression never served.)

Simmering envy
Seeing others bravery
Fearfully, I live

Morning brought no change;
with burning scents on the wind
routine drives forward

The haunting persists:
I carry on ignoring
its calls for reset