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Friday, 09/16/2011 9:46:53 PM

Friday, September 16, 2011 9:46:53 PM

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That looks like free form "rambling". Haiku, courtesy of Wikipedia, customarily would only be written in Japanese, but definitionally:

Haiku (??, haikai verse?) listen (help·info), plural haiku, is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities:

The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru).[1] This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas[2] and a kireji ("cutting word") between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related.[3]
Traditional haiku consist of 17 on (also known as morae), in three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 on respectively.[4] Any one of the three phrases may end with the kireji.[5] Although haiku are often stated to have 17 syllables,[6] this is incorrect as syllables and on are not the same.
A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such words. The majority of kigo, but not all, are drawn from the natural world. This, combined with the origins of haiku in pre-industrial Japan, has led to the inaccurate impression that haiku are necessarily nature poems.

I challenge this Board to an (English) Haiku writing contest, the best haiku gets a free beer in Placencia after the first well is declared commercial. Oiljob

P.S.: I don't remember mine; I'll need to go back and read it.

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