April Poetry Challenge 1

[BernadetteRochelle]

Hi and thank you @Angeline for allowing me to run one of this month's challenges. I've had a long time to think of a theme and after much deliberation and changing my mind, I've settled on something I hope will be fun and not too taxing.

We're playing with a slightly obscure form this month - the Senryu.
Info can be found here https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-senryu-poems

It's quality over quantity with this style of poem, but feel free to write more than one or even morph several together into one meta-poem, be as creative as you like and try to have fun with it!

 

[EllenMore]

that young man reading
I imagine my story
lying beneath him

 

[AlinaX]

I tease my readers
with erotic promises
kept... prematurely

 

[Angeline]

My First Marriage in 17 Syllables

Here's human nature:
you never listened to me,
had rocks in your head.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Thinking waaaaaaaaay too much.
Things are beyond my control.
What was I thinking???

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Memories of you.
Gone, still you inhabit me.
Is this resentment???

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Validate my bull-
shit card. I have a voucher.
Need the approval . . . .

 

[AlinaX]

between the lines I
write forbidden poetry
that eyes skip over

 

[butters]

bilingual folks
communicate in cat/dog
cohabit in peace

 

[AlinaX]

were I bilingual
the pleasures I would double!
who wants to go first?

 

[Wordcascade]

I want; is shown in
the grasping hand of infants
and never ceases

 

[Wat_Tyler]

You made poor choices
and they have brought you to this.
It's own-your-shit time.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Humility is
an herb which, sadly, frequents
precious few gardens.



I like these things!!!

 

[HarryHill]

Falafel waffle
is that an April fools joke
or some very strange cooking?

 

[vagrantx]

structure and form
like ball and chain
we're prisoners until they're broken

 

[Remec]

Warranty Still Valid

Broken? Maybe so,
but I prefer to call it:
loveingly worn in.

 

[BernadetteRochelle]

Candle light, music,
freshly shaven peach.
Anticipation.
I fart.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Think. Think. Think think think.
Think think think think think think think!!!
Oh, stop already!!!!!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The beast, mad, willful,
angry, vengeful, self, caged in
Society's veneer.

 

[42Below]

Lost in her ‘blue’ eyes
yesterday is tomorrow
living in the past

 

[Tzara]

Senryū Explaining My First Romantic Relationship

She was beautiful
and young. I was simply young.
This is the third line.

 

[AlinaX]

young cocks at the bar
pecking away at the chicks
prelude to a pluck

 

[AlinaX]

... but on the subject of first romances:

smoking cigarettes
the bitter foretaste of pain
fondly remembered

 

[XShadynzX]

Leave now, go
No need for asking
Not telling

 

[AlinaX]

the curse of the cock
is oft it comes with a man
too attached to it