In form and length the senryu resembles the better-known haiku. Both are 17-syllable 3-line forms, but their content is entirely different. The focus of haiku is the seasons of the year and is (at least in its pristine form) entirely impersonal. The senryu, on the other hand, is intensely personal, sharp and often scathing in its implications. It is called `comic' poetry, but the humor never arises from a gag or punch line as with most American and English jokes. It only begins to make its effect after the idea in its entirety has been absorbed by the mind, whereupon it sets to work like yeast in a lump of dough. The reader need add nothing to a senryu, but he should make himself receptive to the logical implications of each word and idea. These implications extend outward from the 17-syllable core, ramifying in both time (before and after the moment) and space (along the periphery

by William Pinckard

express the unexpressable in 17 syllables...exploit my brain with your haiku memes...so come and post your little poems...haiku or senryu its all the same to me...

I am what I am
I think therefore I am not
UR KUNG FU IS WEAK!!!