I'll confess that haiku is a somewhat mysterious form of poetry to me.
Most of the Haiku I read is in the weekly Monday Morning Quarterback column by Peter King who ends each piece with a haiku.
Just five syllables, seven syllables in line two, and five in the final line. Easy, right? Well, I don't know.
Since the Haiku North America Conference starts today it feels like a good time to give this art form a try. Begun in Japan between 700 and 1100 and then refined in the 17th Century - the idea is to convey: So what should haiku accomplish? What should it provide the reader? According to the classic haiku poets of Japan, haiku should present the reader with an observation of a natural, commonplace event, in the simplest words, without verbal trickery. (Thanks to a Brief History of Haiku, which however, wasn't written in the form.)
Writing poems in Haiku
Seems like a hard thing to do
I can't, can you?
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Wheels roll and stairs climb
Some pull and some will carry on
We will want to go home.
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Five little syllables
To write about life or love
So much, yet so small.
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A blog about life
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