January 2009
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5-7-5
The haiku, as you may know, is usually a nature-related poem of just seventeen syllables, written in three lines (five syllables, then seven, then five). A poet writing a haiku must work with those limitations, must express an entire idea or image in only that number of syllables […] He can quickly whip out seventeen syllables and have a completed haiku in a short amount of time; or he can...