weathered tough through time
leathery, hardened, calloused
my dad’s gentle hands
Written by Loyd Taylor, March 2010
A Senryu Poem: A senryu is a three line Japanese poem structurally similar to haiku. It is unrhymed and the subject is based human nature. It is usually satirical or ironic. For this form, drop the capital letters to lower case and lose the punctuation.
line 1 - 5 syllables
line 2 - 7 syllables
line 3 - 5 syllables