Yo Tsukinami — English Senryu

If you write short poems about the human condition, you’re welcome under #MidnightSenryu. No theme. No rules. Only what remains awake at night. — Yo Tsukinami #MidnightSenryu #gendaisenryu #Senryu #Micropoetry

every time I open it — the door says sorry — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #gendaisenryu #MidnightSenryu

a bone box — two or three jigsaw pieces — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #gendaisenryu #MidnightSenryu

warm lips — a corpse in March — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #gendaisenryu #MidnightSenryu

from yellow memory — drawing a tsuwabuki — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #gendaisenryu #MidnightSenryu

third day of my hospital stay I finally take a bite of spring --Kiyonobu Matsumoto 入院の三日目やっと春を食ふ　松本清展 From The Lonely Night #Haiku Gathering Newsletter No. 264 #senryu #LonelyNightHaiku #translation

Venus's fingers are tangled in my back teeth --Daiki Shiota ヴィーナスの指が奥歯にからまるの　汐田大輝 From The Lonely Night #Haiku Gathering Newsletter No. 264 #LonelyNightHaiku #senryu #translation

@ayisi_yaw The alliteration of “shimmers subtly” is stunning. “Mother-of-pearl” — light layered within the shell — conjures the cosmos and organic life at once.

The planetoid shimmers subtly like mother-of-pearl #midnightsenryu #scifaikusaturday mother

a quarrel — one key to start another to mend — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #gendaisenryu #MidnightSenryu

stomach acid — a familiar face dissolving — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #gendaisenryu #MidnightSenryu

zui zui zukkorobashi — blind typing — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #gendaisenryu #MidnightSenryu

what I wanted — Doraemon or the pocket — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #MidnightSenryu

seppuku once — three times prostrate apology — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #MidnightSenryu

hymns — now and then a yakitori bar — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #MidnightSenryu

the grip of goodbye — the grip of see you again — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #MidnightSenryu

a shadow — running toward the light — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #MidnightSenryu

how many stations to my navel — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #MidnightSenryu

a good portrait — not like you yet you — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #MidnightSenryu

a hundred nursemaids — one ball — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #MidnightSenryu

line painter dead — white lines remain — Yo Tsukinami #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #MidnightSenryu