Tuesday, April 10, 2018

HAIKUS- DEFINITION

I have written haikus in the past and recently started up again. There have been a number of writers who have written haikus, Jack Kerouac and Richard Wright come to mind.

Haiku is a very short form of Japanese poetry. Traditional haiku consists of seventeen syllables in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditional evoking images of the natural world. Haiku are usually unrhymed.  


EXAMPLES OF HAIKUS:


An old silent pond...

A frog jumps into the pond,

splash! Silent again


                                              ~Basho Matsuo (1644-1694)



Over the wintry

forest, winds howl in rage

with no leaves to blow.



                                               ~Natsume Soseki (1275-1351)

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