Writing competition - 4 - Entry D (Chris)

Yellow!

Yellow: a colour
Just like all the other ones
Except one: the black

Yellow! With a mark
Of exclamation shouted
Insult also is

The racist ‘yellow’
Is a nationality
Equals: Japanese

‘Yellow!’ is also
Scraping the barrel
For this: the entry

Best ideas have gone
And originality
Leaving only this

Not to enter though
Would cause others to whisper
‘He/she is yellow!’

‘Yellow!” a haiku?
No. I must disappoint you
It is just senryuu.