What is an Haiku, anyway?
Perhaps the best way to describe it is by using the medium itself! Here are two attempts:
An haiku is a
Japanese poem
of seventeen syallbles!
Actually, this second one is more true to the rules, in that it has three lines, with a set or prescribed number of syllables or, more correctly, sounds, per line, to wit, five - seven - five. However, rules - particlularly rules for any artistic endeavour, are made to be broken!
Japanese Haiku:
a poetic distillate
of seventeen sounds.
So let's not get too observant. As we say in Cork, "yerra, feck it!" Below are samples of my own haiku, added each week. Why don't you send me yours for inclusion?
