The Haiku/Senryū (川柳) Paradox

Introduction

A lot of creators are publishing daily Haiku/Senryū (川柳) based on songs of their choice and I have given them a little promostion in this piece:

I do not feel that I can partake in this for a number of reasons. Writing short form poetry makes me feel very lazy, even though often it takes a lot of time and effort to get those few words exactly right, but someone once told told me I only wrote poems like that because I was too lazy to write a real poem.

The music is "Paradox" by Hawkwind

Where Do I See The Paradox?

Short for poems are more likely to get read if people know they are a haiku because the poem only has three line so you can read it in seconds. Whether you take in what the creator meant is another matter.

The longer your piece, the more likely it is to scare readers away if they don't know you. Usually longer pieces mean that you have spent more time on and put more effort into the piece, and then it scares people off.

This short piece had three comments, eight hearts and just one read. I thought that a comment should guarantee a read, so either I am wrong or the Vocal mechanism is glitchy.

Often I see longer pieces by me or others that maybe get hearts but no coments, so I do not know if they have been read, I can only see my reads in my stats, but I wish they could include reads from the creator in the story, but I have been told that Vocal can't do that, because everyone who read the story would see the read count.

This is a long piece with one comment and five hearts but I cannot see it on my stats, so I don;t know if it is a successful publication or not, although I have had a lot of reactions on Facebook, but did these people just see the list and not bother with the story?

This story got 68 likes on one post , but they may have just liked the picture

I do put a lot of effort into my work, and maybe I am scaring people, but I cannot change, because if I did I would feel I was being lazy.

Maybe I should write a Senryū (川柳) to see if anyone picks it up.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading and I hope I have given you one or two things to consider.