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The Haiku or haiku is a form of Japanese verse, originating between 1895-1900.
It has a deceptively simple format or structure:
3 lines, unrhymed, consisting of
5 syllables (first line)
7 syllables (second line}
5 syllables (third line)
Haiku normally describes evocative allusions and comparisons. It also usually deals with nature or one of the seasons.
The format is strict. Anything other than a 5/7/5 syllabication is not haiku. It may be a modification, but it isn't haiku.
There seems to be more leniency today, at least in Western culture, to accept subject matter that doesn't create powerful allusions or comparisons. Haiku is being written, also, that doesn't deal with one of the seasons or nature.
Some examples of Haiku might be:
Honeysuckle vine
Feeds a hungry humming bird
Frothy yellow bee.
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Night breezes singing
Of the Winter's woeful wail
Chiding crickets chirp.
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Hunting hawk on wing
Lonely dove did die again
Falcon found its prey.
I can't offer critique of the examples--they were authored by me. But they do meet all the criteria for traditional haiku.
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All of that having been said, the following is offered for the value it may have to you.
It is mostly quoted material, but I took the liberty to edit carefully.
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Contemporary English-language haiku
Today, haiku are written in many languages, but most poets are still concentrated in Japan and in English-speaking countries.
While traditional hokku/haiku focused on nature and the place of humans in nature, modern haiku poets often consider any subject matter suitable. While old hokku avoided some topics such as romance, sex, and overt violence, contemporary haiku often deal specifically with such themes.
Traditional hokku/haiku required a long period of learning and maturing, but contemporary haiku is often (and mistakenly) regarded as an "instant" form of brief verse that can be written by anyone.... Many writers of modern haiku stay faithful to the standards of old hokuu....
Due to the various views and practices today, it is impossible to single out any current style or format or subject matter as definitive "haiku."
Nonetheless, some of the more common practices in English are:
Use of three (or fewer) lines of about 17 or fewer syllables
Use of a season word (kigo)
Use of a cut or caesura (sometimes indicated by a punctuation mark) to contrast and compare, implicitly, two events, images, or situations
This gradual loosening of traditional standards, encouraged by such poet-critics as Bob Grumman, has resulted in the word "haiku" being applied to brief, mathematical "poems," ("mathemaku") and to visual poetry by Scott Helms.
In the early 21st century, there is a thriving community of haiku poets worldwide,...in Japan, English-speaking countries, in Northern Europe, in the Balkans, and in Russia.
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