Haiku/Senryu / Face down

Can’t you see me here?
Laying on the floor face down?
What do you do now?

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Smintboyuk avatar General Stranger

September 01, 2008

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It’s certainly different, consisting of 3 questions.  Your syllable count is ‘correct’, although the 5-7-5 count isn’t strictly a requirement or measure of whether a poem is or is not a haiku/senryu.

I think the strength of this piece is in the obscurity of the message.  I interpret it as someone laying in the street and being ignored by passers by.  I often tell writers to use rich language through careful choice of words, but am unsure how much that would help here.  You only have a single word that is more than 1 syllable.  I’d probably start by re-writing it without using questions.  Right now it just doesn’t feel like a senryu.  Read some of the others on this site and you’ll see what I mean.  Good luck.

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