Form Friday: Two Tercet Poetry Forms I Often Use

Tercets are three line poetry forms or stanzas. There are several different types of these three line forms. Two of the types I use frequently are Japanese forms called haiku and senryu. These two forms are composed of seventeen syllables traditionally written in line phase as 5-7-5 with each form having a different subject. The subject of a senryu is human beings or culture. The subject of a haiku is nature.

Good Friday Coffee:
A Senryu

Good Friday coffee
It is a two carafe day
A day for writing

Good Friday Wind:
A Haiku

Pine boughs sway at dawn
The wind carries morning's scent
Sparrows laying eggs