like Haiku but concerned with human foibles.(Wikipedia)
"Senryu, like haiku, are usually one to three lines in length but whilst haiku focuses on nature and the world around us, senryu homes in on human nature and the way our human minds function within our many environments. Senryu may or may not include aspects of the natural world, but if they do, they do so with an emphasis on the way we as human beings perceive those aspects and how they interact with our own psychology. In this way, senryu are often, though not always, humorous and are frequently complemented by a sharp, sometimes wicked wit. (From Prune Juice)"
Differences between Haiku and Senryu
Haiku
Senryu
Seasonal Reference
No Seasonal Reference
Haiku is Haiku
Synru is playful using simile, metaphor, and personification
Kerouac, Jack and Regina Weinreich. Book of Haikus. New York: Penguin Poets, 2003.
Cocktail Party Banter
What do you do Frank?
I write Senryu for a literary magazine on the internet.
So in other words you are one of those Burma Bums?
a disgust caused by too much excess... (filled up with too many pleasures).
Cocktail Party Banter
Charles is sooo surfeit from all of the pleasures he experienced in Las Vegas.
Literary Reference
The illiberality of parents, in allowance towards their children, is an harmful error; makes them base; acquaints them with shifts; makes them sort with mean company; and makes themsurfeitmore when they come to plenty.
overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance, overabundance - a quantity that is more than what is appropriate; "four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy"; "we received an inundation of email"
Definition: Someone who is an ass kisser to the influential people in their lives.
Cocktail Party banter: "Judy is such a toad licker, such a sycophant: she will brown nose anyone, just to get promoted.
Found in Literature(Literary Context): Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary
SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he
may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an
editor.
As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased
To fix itself upon a part diseased
Till, its black hide distended with bad blood,
It drops to die of surfeit in the mud,
So the base sycophantwith joy descries
His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies,
Gorges and prospers like the leech, although,
Unlike that reptile, he will not let go.
Gelasma, if it paid you to devote
Your talent to the service of a goat,
Showing by forceful logic that its beard
Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered;
If to the task of honoring its smell
Profit had prompted you, and love as well,
The world would benefit at last by you
And wealthy malefactors weep anew --
Your favor for a moment's space denied
And to the nobler object turned aside.
Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires
Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares,
Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly
To safer villainies of darker dye,
Forswearing robbery and fain, instead,
To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread
May see you groveling their boots to lick
And begging for the favor of a kick?
Still must you follow to the bitter end
Your sycophantic disposition's trend,
And in your eagerness to please the rich
Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch?
In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire,
And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher!(#)
What's Satan done that him you should eschew?
He too is reeking rich -- deducting you.
#Havemeyher-were sugar Robber Barons back in the 1800's. They may have been sugary sweet... but they were barons still the same. It is reported that they stole by have corruptible ways.
(Wikipedia Article) is a sub-genre of science fiction, alternative history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980's and early 1990's. The term denotes fictional works set in an are where steam power is still widely used, usually the 19th century and often Victorian era Britain. and it often features anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians may have seen them. The technology may include such fictional machines as those found in the works of Jules Verne or real technological developments like the personal computer.
Satirical Definition from Urban Dictionary:
A group of 40 something virgins that seriously need to get over themselves - They ponce around with cogs, plastic guns and "rocket powered" roller skates, desperately craving the tiniest morsel of attention from anybody who will even catch them in the corner of their (non-mechanical) eye. It would be SLIGHTLY impressive (but still ridiculously pointless) ....If they are going to continue to manufacture corrigated cardboard machine outfits, at least, MAKE SURE THEY FUNCTION!!! Wearing monacles, top-hats, badly tailored suits, penny whistles sprayed silver, pocket watches and faux rocket-packs - They have established themselves as the latest brigade of complete and utter self-indulgent tools....:
Simple Sentence to Use at your Club's Next Cocktail Party:
Person 1: "Oh my God! Look at all of those Steam Punk wannabees at this Halloween party; They think they're out of that...that one movie with Will Smith...(clicks fingers)... what utter Schmucks!!!"
Person 2: They look.. what's the word, like a bunch of Ferdinands prancing in the pansies...
Person 1: "Yup!"
Person 2: "What a bunch of -
Person 1: "I know! When do you think they last saw a fanny?"
Person 2: "When their mothers released them onto the dirty floor of the old watch shop... about 40 years ago!"
Person 1: "Prigs! I hate Steampunks!"
Person 2 (shouting at Steampunks): "Yeah Man!!!! Let's blow this...!!!!
They rush out into the cold, crisp, October Night.
Words in Context:
The game is a steampunk, fantasy MMO with large battlefields where hundreds of players do battle, features a deep crafting system, and has vehicle carriers that can ferry anywhere between 3 and 10 players into battle at a time.
The skinhead subculture was originally associated with music genres such as soul, ska, rocksteady and early reggae.[1][24] The link between skinheads and Jamaican music led to the development of the skinhead reggae genre; performed by artists such as Desmond Dekker, Derrick Morgan, Laurel Aitken, Symarip and The Pioneers.[11] In the early 1970s, some suedeheads also listened to British glam rock bands such asThe Sweet, Slade and Mott the Hoople.[19][25] During this time, some reggae lyrics featured themes of black liberation and awareness, something that white skinheads could not relate to.[26] This shift in reggae's lyrical themes created some tension between black and white skinheads, who otherwise got along fairly well.[27] (Wikipedia: Article - Skin Head)
1. Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator. The summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere occurs about June 21, when the sun is in the zenith at the tropic of Cancer; the winter solstice occurs about December 21, when the sun is over the tropic of Capricorn. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year and the winter solstice is the shortest.
2. A highest point or culmination.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin slstitium : sl, sun; see swel- in Indo-European roots + -stitium, a stoppage; see st- in Indo-European roots.]
The Sun Had first his precept so to move, so shine, As might affect the Earth with cold and heat Scarce tolerable, and from the North to call Decrepit Winter, from the South to bring Solstitial summers heat.Paradise Lost by Milton, John
Solistitium Records a place where those Norweigen Metal Heads Rock Out:
from the Latinsimulacrum which means "likeness, similarity",[1] is first recorded in the English language in the late 16th century, used to describe a representation of another thing, such as a statue or a painting, especially of a god; by the late 19th century, it had gathered a secondary association of inferiority: an image without the substance or qualities of the original.[2]PhilosopherFrederic Jameson offers photorealism as an example of artistic simulacrum, where a painting is created by copying a photograph that is itself a copy of the real.[3] Other art forms that play with simulacra include Trompe l'oeil,[4]Pop Art, Italian neorealism and the French New Wave.[5]
From the Maui News Second Thoughts August 31st 2010 by
LYNNE HORNER
Here's what happened: Last night, I got happy with the scissors and gave myself a haircut. While I was watching television. No mirrors, no scissors intended for cutting hair were involved. Two glasses of red wine - you know, for the antioxidants - were.
"WHAT are you doing?" The Captain asked at the top of his voice, in the same tone he might use if I were stepping into a bathtub with a live toaster.
"Shearing a sheep? Driving a herd of cats? What does it look like I'm doing?" I said, going from zero to snarky in a nanosecond, and merrily snipping away with a pair of craft scissors.
"Stop! Make an appointment tomorrow and have it done right. It's going to look like rats had at you."
lstitium : s
wel- in Indo-European roots + -stitium, a stoppage; see st
i·ly adv.
