Category: SenHai

Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing!

This week, a friend of mine graciously allowed me to use a scene he captured. Enjoy the snowy landscape prominently featuring a few tree branches laden down with the white stuff. Apropos of this time of the year!

Please create one senryu and one haiku to accompany this image prompt. Remember that a traditional haiku describes nature or a season, while a senryu focuses on human nature and emotions.

Then, provide a link in the comments below or ping back to this post on your blog.

Here is a wrap-up of last week’s prompt. I appreciate each of you for sharing your thoughts!

AJ – SenHai Saturday

Graeme – Framed!

Eugenia – #SenHai Saturday – 12/6/25

Nolcha – BREAKOUT

Lisa – Showcased

Cheryl – Senhai Saturday

Sara – Framed

Carolyn – SenHai Saturday #29

Indira – SenHai Saturday #29

Misky – 7.12: Journal of Thoughts

Sadje – Green and white

Ben – 11.12.25 — Haiku/Senryu

Carol Anne – Sen-hai Saturday #29

Violet – Verdant

Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing!

This image is an underwater photo, resplendent with many small, silver fish. They resemble minnows. The bottom is white sand, and the varying hues of blue from lighter to darker.

Please create one senryu and one haiku to accompany this image prompt. Remember that a traditional haiku describes nature or a season, while a senryu focuses on human nature and emotions.

Then, provide a link in the comments below or ping back to this post on your blog.

Here is a wrap-up of last week’s prompt. I appreciate each of you for sharing your thoughts!

Carol Anne – Sen-hai Saturday #27

Eugenia – #SenHai Saturday – 11/22/25

Misky – 22.11: Journal of Thoughts

Nolcha – BLUE DISGUISE

A J – SenHai Saturday

Cheryl – Senhai Saturday

Carolyn – SenHai Saturday #27

Sara – monochrome

Lisa – Lofty

Violet – Sleeping Lady

Sadje – Even fog can’t hide the beauty

Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing!

This image features a mountain landscape filled with a fog layer at the base and hazy layers throughout the sky; the colors feel dark and ominous.

Please create one senryu and one haiku to accompany this image prompt. Remember that a traditional haiku describes nature or a season, while a senryu focuses on human nature and emotions.

Then, provide a link in the comments below or ping back to this post on your blog.

Here is a wrap-up of last week’s prompt. I appreciate each of you for sharing your thoughts!

Carol Anne – Sen-hai Saturday #26

Misky – 15.11: Journal of Thoughts

Eugenia – #SenHai Saturday – 11/15/25

AJ – SenHai Saturday

Carolyn – SenHai Saturday #26

Joan Leotta, Fairfax, Va

Snowy field, night here
my feet will step with surety
on the well-lit path

warm respite’s light
transforms snowy field into
a swath of diamonds

Sara – SenHai Saturday #26

Heather – Possibility

Lisa – Home in a Blue World

Sadje – The lonely cottage

Violet – A Litany

Catherin – Haiku and Senryu

Destiny – #winter’s flame#

Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing!

The photographer presents us with a snowy mountain scene, featuring the treeline in the background and the white landscape in the foreground. Outside lights illuminate the small cabin, highlighting a trail that leads to it.

Please create one senryu and one haiku to accompany this image prompt. Remember that a traditional haiku describes nature or a season, while a senryu focuses on human nature and emotions.

Then, provide a link in the comments below or ping back to this post on your blog.

Here is a wrap-up of last week’s prompt. I appreciate each of you for sharing your thoughts!

Eugenia – #SenHai Saturday – 11/8/25

Misky – when beauty touches bone

Carolyn – SenHai Saturday #25

AJ – SenHai Saturday

Tina – SenHai Saturday 25

Nolcha – Comfort

Cheryl – Senhai Saturday #25

Carole Anne – Sen-hai Saturday #25

Sheila – my heart is there

Destiny – #dusky skies#

Heather – Night’s Arrival

Sadje – When sun sets

Violet – Gympsum Sands

Lisa – Sit By Me

Ben – 13.11.25 — Haiku/Senryu

Indira – SenHai Saturday #25

Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing!

From the photographer – “The sun is setting over a snowy landscape. A stunning sunset over the vast dunes of White Sands National Park, casting a gentle glow on the rippling sand and sparse vegetation.”

Please create one senryu and one haiku to accompany this image prompt. Remember that a traditional haiku describes nature or a season, while a senryu focuses on human nature and emotions.

Then, provide a link in the comments below or ping back to this post on your blog.

Here is a wrap-up of last week’s prompt. I appreciate each of you for sharing your thoughts!

I encourage everyone to read the contributions this week. The caliber of the writing was stunning!

Misky – 1.11: Journal of Thoughts

Eugenia – #SenHai Saturday – 11/1/25

Carolyn – SenHai Saturday #24

Nolcha – Alone

Carol Anne – Sen-hai Saturday #24

AJ – SenHai Saturday

Ben – 3.11.25 — Haiku/Senryu

Sheila – sunrise

Lisa – The Sun Winks

Destiny – #sun-lit#

Punam paeansunplugged
you see loneliness
I am made of sterner stuff
leaders stand alone

as the sun goes down
branches raised in supplication
will the moon oblige

Sadje – Standing Tall

Violet – Crowning Achievements

Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing!

This week’s image is of a single tree in a desolate area, with the sun setting behind it and a mountain range in the background.

Please create one senryu and one haiku to accompany this image prompt. Remember that a traditional haiku describes nature or a season, while a senryu focuses on human nature and emotions.

Then, provide a link in the comments below or ping back to this post on your blog.

Here is a wrap-up of last week’s prompt. I appreciate each of you for sharing your thoughts!

**To all my micro-poetry lovers on this prompt, if you haven’t sent in a submission to this cycle of The Short of It, and you want to, just a reminder: there’s still time, but we are getting close to capacity. Don’t be shy, you are ALL worthy of being a part of this little project!

Shalini – Saturday

Eugenia – #SenHai Saturday – 10/25/25

Tina – alarm bells & devious beauty

AJ – SenHai Saturday

Heather – Revolving or Evolving

Carolyn – SenHai Saturday #23

Carol Anne – Sen-Hai Saturday #23

Nolcha – Dancing in the Moonlight

Misky – 26.10: SenHai #23

Lisa – Heavenly Orb

Dwight – Molten Moon

Violet – Celestial Core

Sadje – Streaming light

Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing!

This image is not a photograph but rather a digital creation. The hubs shared it with me and thought it might be a fun one this week. I agree! It is a night scene with a rather large moon radiating like a sun, seemingly teetering on the edge of a waterfall, also illuminated. Two tiny people are standing at the edge of the waterfall.

Please create one senryu and one haiku to accompany this image prompt. Remember that a traditional haiku describes nature or a season, while a senryu focuses on human nature and emotions.

Then, provide a link in the comments below or ping back to this post on your blog.

Here is a wrap-up of last week’s prompt. I appreciate each of you for sharing your thoughts!

Eugenia – #SenHai Saturday – 10/18/25

Tina – SenHai Saturday

Carolyn – SenHai Saturday #22

Destiny – #shades of time#

AJ – Ice Kissed SenHai

Carol Anne – Sen-hai Saturday #22

Misky – Cold Fire

Lisa – Skeletal

Sadje – Reaching for the sky

Ben – 22.10.25 — Haiku/Senryu

Violet – Aged Digits

Shalini – How High is the Moon

Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing!

Bare icy winter branches reach up towards a cloudy and eerie-looking night sky. It is mostly dark, but the clouds have hues of orange, dark blue, red, and white in front of the shining moon.

Please create one senryu and one haiku to accompany this image prompt. Remember that a traditional haiku describes nature or a season, while a senryu focuses on human nature and emotions.

Then, provide a link in the comments below or ping back to this post on your blog.

Here is a wrap-up of last week’s prompt. I appreciate each of you for sharing your thoughts!

TetnusLull

Senryu
I hold my breath too,
pretending patience looks like
grace, not hesitation.

Haiku
Green flame of stillness
the heron burns in silence,
the wind forgets words.

Carol Anne – Sen-hai Saturday #21

Eugenia – #SenHai Saturday – 10/11/25

Nolcha – Too Blue

Tina – begin again

Ben – 12.10.25 — Haiku/Senryu

AJ – SenHai Heron

Lisa – Green Heron

Cheryl – Senhai Saturday

Sadje – Pretty bird – What are you thinking?

Violet – Stand and Wait

Here is this week’s image to get your creative juices flowing!

The image depicts a green heron displaying colors of green, brown, teal, and blue. It has orange legs and is perched on a branch, with additional branches visible in the background.

Please create one senryu and one haiku to accompany this image prompt. Remember that a traditional haiku describes nature or a season, while a senryu focuses on human nature and emotions.

Then, provide a link in the comments below or ping back to this post on your blog.

Here is a wrap-up of last week’s prompt. I appreciate each of you for sharing your thoughts!

Eugenia – #SenHai Saturday – 10/4/25

Tina – the dawn of a new day

Carolyn – SenHai Saturday #20

Nolcha – View from the Bottom

Sadje – Under the Sea

Lisa – Undulating Light

Violet – Depths Unknown

Ben – 10.10.25 — Haiku/Senryu

Petrujviljoen – ocean stories