The Defiling of Haiku: Americanization be Damned

poetry — Gary R. Hess @ 3:00 pm on Jun 20, 2008

The three lined haiku: something every American teen embraces. It contains five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables in corresponding lines. You’ve already read why syllables are meaningless in haiku, but what else could possibly be wrong?
Haiku can be in any number of meters. Haiku is the abbreviation for the phrase “haikai no ku” meaning a [...]


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