Holiday Senryu Contest
Introduction
Holidays are made by people. As such, you will find lots of material about human beings to write about this holiday season. Senryu are poems with the same syllable structure as the haiku, 5-7-5. The difference is, where haiku tend to be about nature, senryu are those 5-7-5 poems that focus on human nature: what people do, what we're like, and our "follies". They are also comic poems - poems that tend to make you laugh or crack a smile.
Your challenge for this contest is to write a sequence of three senryu about the holidays.
You can read some examples of senryu here and here. The three senryu may be related to each other, or not at all.
Rules
1. Please keep content family friendly! Ideally, it should be something like a joke you'd be comfortable telling your friends on this site.
2. Please submit by the due date~
3. Enspoiler your submission and post it in this thread.
Prizes
1st - 100 points
2nd - 75 points
3rd - 50 points
Special Prize Categories
As a tie-in with the YWS Best and Most awards, this contest will also award the following prize categories besides 1st, 2nd and 3rd:
Most Colourful (Or Colorful) - 25 points + mystery avvie edit
Best Snowperson Chic - 25 points + mystery avvie edit
Best *firework crackle* Vibes - 25 points + mystery avvie edit
The names of these categories . . . are up to interpretation. Be creative! For example, you don't necessarily have to write a senryu about snowpeople for it to have snowperson chic. A senryu that fits the vibes of the phrase 'snowperson chic' might very well make the category!
Submissions by
31st December 2021
