They've Gone

Senryu

Your children are dead.

Go now and lay down your head.

They've fled, it is said.

(Jul 2022)

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

This senryu conjured up some pretty disturbing imagery and different scenarios Andrew. I leave here pondering.

Chris

[Andrew John]

Thank you, Chris. Oh, do ponder, ponder, ponder. I love writing these little things - senryus (is that the correct plural?) or haikus. And we just happen to have some rhyme this time.

[Andrew John]

Actually, some disturbing effect from a sonnet I wrote some months ago - which you may have seen - called "A Second Daughter Departs", which was written for someone who did lose a second daughter in three and a half years.