The latest issue of Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka Issue 3, Winter 2010, is now available online by clicking here.You're not familiar with the terms senryu and kyoka? Simply put, a senryu has the same format as a haiku, but rather than Nature, it has human nature as its subject--human nature with all its foibles! Prune Juice's editor Liam Wilkinson describes it this way:
There it is, leaning on the mantelpiece, watching us go about our daily lives with a smirk stretched across its face.In Japan, a kyoka is also known as a "mad" or "crazy" poem. As a senryu is to haiku, a kyoka is to tanka. For an explanation of the 5-lined tanka (a.k.a. waka), click here.
Below are two representative poems.
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local landfill--
all the things
we had to have
John Soules
he scrutinizes
their every play;
I'm in it
for the commercials
and their firm Super Bowl butts
Janet Lynn Davis
Liam Wilkerson also edits 3LIGHTS: Journal of Haiku and Related Forms. The journal replaces the online gallery which I wrote about for a Poetry Friday post last year.
The Poetry Friday Round-Up for this week is hosted by Jone at Check It Out. Stop by!
Love this, Diane!
ReplyDeleteI read them all!
ReplyDeleteAnd did you enjoy them?
ReplyDeleteMost of them, yes. Some, not so much . . .
ReplyDeleteone I particularly love -- the ohmmmm of flourescent lights!
I just now came across this, more than 2-1/2 years late. Someone wanted to see the above poem, so to find it quickly, I Googled it, and this blog popped up. Hope you got a kick out of my Super B. "kyoka" (not to be punny). Cool blog!
ReplyDeleteHi Janet! I'm so glad you stopped by! I did enjoy your poem, and I understand quite well your Super Bowl priorities!
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