Haiku
Haiku is a form of poetry that is popular in Japan. Haiku writers create a poem using only seventeen syllables. It has three lines with the first line consisting of five syllables, the second line consisting of seven syllables, and the third and last line consisting of five syllables.
In Japan, these poems are valued for:
However, today, many modern haikus are valued for:
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In the twilight rain (5 syllables)
these brilliant-hued hibiscus - (7 syllables) A lovely sunset (5 syllables) - Bashō |
Help me, I am trapped (5 syllables)
in a haiku factory (7 syllables) save me before they... (5 syllables) |
This is a haiku by Aaron Hotelling The seventeen syllables
Is what makes this true "Little Gossip"
I heard a rumor Just a tiny, little one Not quite worth telling But I can tell you You can keep a secret, right? I know you won't tell. My best friend's cousin Has a friend who knows someone Who saw something strange. Then he told his friend Who told my best friend's cousin What he thought he saw. But the thing he saw, Or may not have seen at all Could have been nothing. He saw it dimly Through a mirror in the dark Without his glasses. But I think it's true. At least my best friend's cousin's friend's source thinks it is. Please don't tell, okay? I really shouldn't have told But you keep secrets. Look! There's someone else! I just have to tell her this! She won't tell either. -Mrs. Falconer |