About Senryu & Haiku. Comments

Senryu (sound: sin-re-u) .Haiku (sound: high-Ku) . Elizabeth St Jacques wrote: George Swede of Toronto, Ontario, who co-founded Haiku Canada in 1977 and active in the international haiku community, provides the clearest and most logical answer I have found. After studying haiku types, he came to the conclusion that English-language haiku consist of 'three content categories': Nature haiku, Human haiku (senryu) , and Human plus nature haiku (hybrids) . Examples follow each of George's astute findings:
'Nature haiku have no reference to humans or human artifacts and often have season words or kigo. They are what people typically assume haiku to be and comprise only around 20% of published work (in the best periodicals and anthologies) .'
from wet clay
where no seed will grow
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