<![CDATA[Gentle reminder nearly every “Haiku” people write in English are actually Senryu.]]>Gentle reminder nearly every “Haiku” people write in English are actually Senryu.

“Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 morae (called on in Japanese) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern; that include a kireji, or "cutting word"; and a kigo, or seasonal reference… Similar poems that do not adhere to these rules are generally classified as senryū.”

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/_the_cloud/statuses/116421149568847472https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/_the_cloud/statuses/116421149568847472Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:09:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gentle reminder nearly every “Haiku” people write in English are actually Senryu. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:03:27 GMT]]>@nuthatch ahahahahah
I love that fact. Geez, how long have we known each other? Deep from the archives

Sean Wolter on Twitter (archived)

So. Technically that's a Senryū. Not about nature. Lacking a kireji. So. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senry%C5%AB

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Language melts
Like the winter with no snow?
He replied "ya"

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nuthatch/statuses/116420270867538043https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nuthatch/statuses/116420270867538043Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:25:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gentle reminder nearly every “Haiku” people write in English are actually Senryu. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:19:34 GMT]]>I had someone try to explain to me that native English speakers are allowed to pluralize foreign words by slapping an ’s’ on the end however they like, and as a terminally native English speaker I did not dignify them an answer.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nuthatch/statuses/116420245872023244https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nuthatch/statuses/116420245872023244Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:19:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gentle reminder nearly every “Haiku” people write in English are actually Senryu. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:18:29 GMT]]>Also, the plural of emoji is emoji. You can choose to butcher it, as your language allows, but you sound like an idiot. Be comfortable in your ignorance, as you wish.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nuthatch/statuses/116420241649582975https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nuthatch/statuses/116420241649582975Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:18:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gentle reminder nearly every “Haiku” people write in English are actually Senryu. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:17:31 GMT]]>“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (not Haiku)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nuthatch/statuses/116420237789864702https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nuthatch/statuses/116420237789864702Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:17:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gentle reminder nearly every “Haiku” people write in English are actually Senryu. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:16:06 GMT]]>Also almost every Haiku people post (including mine) are just painfully terrible. There are many many excellent translations of actual Haiku, please, go seek them out: Matsuo Bashō, Kobayashi Issa, Mizuoka Shiki, Natsume Sōseki.

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