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What is Haiku? Printed From: HairBoutique.com Category: Off Topics Forum Name: Hair Haiku & Poetry Forum Description: Create & Share URL: https://talk.hairboutique.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=17636 Printed Date: April 23 2024 at 3:15am Topic: What is Haiku? Posted By: admin Subject: What is Haiku? Date Posted: July 23 2001 at 10:13am From Microsoft Encarta... Haiku, Japanese verse form, notable for its compression and suggestiveness. It consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Traditionally and ideally, a haiku presents a pair of contrasting images, one suggestive of time and place, the other a vivid but fleeting observation. Working together, they evoke mood and emotion. The poet does not comment on the connection but leaves the synthesis of the two images for the reader to perceive. A haiku by the poet Basho, considered to have written the most perfect examples of the form, illustrates this duality: Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life.

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