A special friend (Senryu)

Fingers embracing
Your warmth and mine become one
Heart stopping heat joined

A lover's farewell

I am a being forged in hell.
All seeming good I'll soon dispel
All joy in life, promptly expel.
For your own good, quick, say "Farewell".


You think I bring you lasting fun.
Little knowing what you've just begun
So much you've worked for, all undone
I cannot be your true loved one.


If joined with me, you will be cursed.
Your life in sadness, full immersed,
A lifetime's gain, so soon dispersed,
Take this last kiss on your lips pursed.

Tough Love (Senryu-haiku)

Living trail of pain
Would that I had never been.
All those lives enjoyed.-

Aging (Senryu)

The only life, now.
Experience, here at once,
Yet past years pile up.

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Context: Another birthday and scanning a lot of old slides.

Gordon Brown (acrostic)

Gee it must be hard.
One chance only Tony scarred.
Reaping all the mess he's left,
Dour bleak Scotsman, joy bereft.
One consolation you can cherish
Now your term is set to perish.

Blair's chrome gloss will soon be gone,
Reality's rust his shine undone.
One Archerism and then another,
Wilful deceit the truth to smother.
Now you hold the sinking rudder.

Snow (haiku ... or should that be '`s no haiku')

Snow, the world is white.
Under foot, soft crunching ground
All is insecure.

Epizeuxis (Senryu)

Epizeuxis? Yes!
Really, truly, yes it is.
Would that it were so.


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With thanks to Ammon Shea (Reading the Oxford English Dictionary) for drawing my attention to this beautiful word. And yes, this little verse does have several meanings.

New Year (Haiku - or senryu - borderline I think)

Twenty-ten is here.
Passing time, minutes contract
And the years grow long.