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HAIKU

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A HAIKU is a Japanese poem about

nature that describes a moment or

scene in three lines. The first and third

lines have five syllables each; the

second line has seven syllables.

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Broken and broken

Again on the sea, the moon

So easily mends.

- Chosu

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Shiny colored tents

Pop up above people’s heads

At the first raindrop.

- Myra Cohn Livingston

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A lonely sparrow

Hops upon the snow and prints

Sets of maple leaves.

- Kazue Mizumura

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       Butterfly, these words

from my brush are not flowers,

       only their shadows.

 - Soseki

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        A cloud shimmering

on the still pool ... deep below

        shadows, a fish stirs.

 - Shurin

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        My horse clip-clopping

over a field ... oh ho! I'm

        part of the picture!

- Bashō

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The seed of all song

is the farmer's busy hum

 as he plants his rice.

- Basho

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    Lightly a new moon

brushes a silver haiku

      on the tips of waves.

- Kyoshi

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Yellow autumn moon…

Unimpressed the scarecrow stands

Simply looking bored

- Issa

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