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Louis Faber's avatar

Writing a haiku

count every syllable

and hope you have en

The Haiku Garden's avatar

Ha! Well done!

Kathy-Musings From the Art Den's avatar

The haiku challenge

Syllables ripe with meaning

Cinema of mind

Bill Ferguson 🇨🇦's avatar

Key strokes click in time

Words appear on a white screen

Searching for meaning

*

Hidden treasures wait

The search for syllables starts

New words should be found

XXX's avatar

One two three four five

Fingers counting all the time

How will all this end?

elaine heveron's avatar

I can't beat that one

But I still have to try one

Haiku is such fun

Mark Duncan Stuart's avatar

I love meta-haiku, and wrote this one recently:

this three-line poem

with seventeen syllables

is not a haiku

With apologies to Magritte. :-)

In fact, I even put it on a t-shirt:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4514674506/this-three-line-poem-organic-cotton

The Haiku Garden's avatar

Thanks for the term “meta-haiku.” I hadn’t come across it before. (Also, I enjoyed browsing your shop)

Mark Duncan Stuart's avatar

Thanks.

I'm not sure "meta-haiku" is mine, but it does seem appropriate (given my IT background).

elaine heveron's avatar

Love the shirt haiku!!

Jessica Williams's avatar

kigo the season

kensho the haiku moment

kireji cuts in

~jcw

Type of Poet -D. VanderHouwen's avatar

Counting on fingers

Syllables to make haiku

Harder than it seems.

IanKirton's avatar

Summer:

haiku and pollen

summer builds words and sneezes

ah-ah-ahhh hai..kuuuu!

elaine heveron's avatar

It's tempting to rush

I love editing too though

More than it may show

The Haiku Garden's avatar

I love the line "More than it may show." :)