Word Finder - haiku

definition

A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.

definition

A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.

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Haiku, a poem

A haiku is a special type of short poem.

The first line of a haiku has five syllables, the next seven and the last line has five.

You select the specific type of poem you want to create (for instance, a haiku, villanelle, sonnet, and so on).

Haiku writers from around the world have been invited to produce haiku writers from around the world have been invited to produce haiku poetry in response a selection of work from The webWORKS Gallery.

Different poetry styles are also endemic to certain locations such as the famous Japanese haiku.

Does this mean you should compose your own sonnet or Haiku?

Usually I want to inspire people to write haiku, which is not always easy in a confined space.

The Haiku is restricted to three lines in a maximum syllabic pattern of 5-7-5, frequently divided by a caesura.

In making a haiku, we try to present something in the most direct words possible.

These are questions that I ask about many English language haiku!

Traditionally haibun is prose that includes one or more haiku, the prose have the same observational, uncritical stance of haiku.

If you are suffering from heartbreak, the technical challenge of a haiku can sometimes shake you out of your feelings long enough to let you focus on the positive, even the absurd.

Her poem is first spring day the deep indentation in my pillow I enjoyed the contrast in this haiku.

Bader jokes that the haiku was probably ' developed by Zen monks suffering from attention deficit disorder ' .

More details are on the big red haiku postbox situated in the cafe itself.

Shiki, known in America mainly as the first great modern haiku poet, also revolutionized tanka and short prose essays.

This new venture brings into sharp focus some of the best haiku and tanka writers writing in English today.

Most of the other poems are just as good and include some fine haiku.

Shiki encouraged his students to compose haiku on topics derived from their own observation of nature, rather than on assigned topics.

There is even a new haiku in the haiku in the haiku section.

Some of the words are taken from translations of Japanese haiku.

Telling the reader how you feel does not make the reader feel anything and does not make a good haiku.

In the 17th century modern haiku was born in Japan.

If you would like to add your own haiku then simply register with the Charnwood Arts Web site and login.

There is the spirit of haiku about this - present too in other poems - the kind of immediacy achieved in Zen satori.

Also, as a rest from rhyme I enjoy syllabic forms like haiku and tanka.

Click on the images below to view a picture and read any haiku that have been written.

Haiku is Japanese, the Rondeau French while the Ode dates back to Greek and Latin forms of poetry.

Marc Sobel won honorable mention in a haiku competition that was featured on the Daily Show with John Stewart.

For something even more interesting, the makers of the site have a haiku section where haiku are written about popular movies like 12 Monkeys and not-so-popular movies like Bad Lieutenant.

With a watery translucence, the Haiku series provides a quiet color palette in a 5-inch modular format.