Haiku Musings

Ok. Here it is. I don't like most of what I read as modern haiku. Why? Because it really isn't haiku at all! It's something called senryu. Senryu uses haiku form and format but instead of using nature as subject, takes the human drama instead. You know, everthing that happens to us.

I dont' know about you but I've about had it with human drama. That's what drew me to haiku in the first place. Here was a poetry of elegant simplicity where I could turn and escape from the world for a while. Now we have poets who just don't seem to get the "haiku mindset" which, in my mind at least, explores the miracle of the natural world. Instead we get clever little poems about something happening in our world.

There's nothing wrong per se with senryu. Except that I really don't like it that much.