WHAT IS A HAIKU?
Feb 03, 2021
2 minutes
By IMOGEN LYCETT GREEN
At the full moon’s rising, the silver-plumed reeds tremble
Haiku are only three lines long. Here is an example of a poem by the grand master of haiku, Masaoka Shiki, who died in 1902:
At the full moon’s
rising, the silver-plumed
reeds tremble
Here is
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