Haiku is high art in Japan, the entire poem encapsulated in seventeen single syllable characters. English Haiku can deviate from the form of five, seven, and five syllable lines, but the form demands an economy of lanuage that distills a single moment to its barest elements.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Haiku
leaves rake into heaps the sweater now warms a bush my tea has gone cold
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