Haiku & Senryu

By Pam Crane

Haiku and Senryu are both tiny seventeen-syllable poems that paint a word picture of a moment in time and space. This Japanese form has been a favourite with Pam Crane for many years, building up into a verse journal - and often replacing a forgotten camera! Haiku are strictly concerned with seasons and the natural environment; Senryu can express anything - a mood, an event, an idea, even a joke. They have become so popular in the West that both versions are now erroneously called Haiku in the media, and questions on BBC TV's 'Pointless' quiz are often framed as 'Haiku' (though this makes them very difficult to read!)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pam Crane
• Release date: May 22, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370991334

Pam Crane

Pam Crane has been a poet since she was seven years old; it was only when she joined her local Writers' Club that she found she could also write short stories. She has also been a Christian astrologer for most of her life, is well known in that community, and is the author of two books plus many articles in the Astrological Association Journal (for which she compiles the regular Cryptic Crossword.) You can find her website at http://revpamcrane.weebly.com.

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HAIKU & SENRYU

by Pam Crane

Published by Shoestring at Smashwords

Copyright 2017 Pam Crane

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CONTENTS

Tiny Scribblings of a Virgo Soul

Wandering, and Seeing -

Switzerland and Italy

North Wales

Yorkshire

Lancashire and the Lakes

Extremely Small Poems

Images of Pain

For Those Loved and Gone

Boxes – 19 Senryu

Views from the Path

Snapshots of a Crane’s life

About Pam Crane

TINY SCRIBBLINGS OF A VIRGO SOUL

My Haiku to you

Are three dry lines of private

Washing in public

Tales tall as bamboo,

Media streams, music groves,

Zip - and are Haiku

Thinking of Haiku -

Dandelion parachutes

Tickle my eyelids

Haiku

Are catching - I sneeze