A Haiku preview. Haiku, of course, is a form of Japanese poetry that infuses/mandates 17 syllables in a 5/7/5 pattern. The restrictions enable creativity in most. Not necessarily me.

And the haiku reads - (reading) a basketball spins on the edge of the hoop, spring equinox. MCCAMMON: Nice one, Garry, but a basketball spins on the edge - that's not five syllables.

Poet Violet Kazue de Cristoforo died last week at age 90. She was famous for writing and collecting haiku poems that captured life in Japanese internment camps during World War II.

The haiku, like Hall’s life, has a turning point. His series of not-quite-haikus (“distressed” in both subject matter and form) takes bits of his grief and explores its contradictions.

A haiku is a short Japanese poem, which typically has 17 syllables – five in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the last. Schulte’s doesn’t exactly follow that mold.

These Japanese cities may inspire your next haiku Turns out haiku doesn’t need to have three lines—and other things you might learn on a tour of Japan’s historic poetry sites.

I will leave you with still another prize-winning Haiku poem: Spring wind frees The full moon tangled In leafless trees.

Time to analyze the 2025 Belmont Stakes field, in post position order, in the form of Haiku; a Japanese poem of 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.

The second source of inspiration is an old saying among composers of haiku that their poems should be written like water poured over a five- shaku sweet flag, a grass-like marsh plant whose leaves ...

We do it every year. A simple, slimmer type of NCAA Tournament preview. A look at the Thursday and Friday games, but with commentary in Haiku. Haiku, of course, is a form of Japanese poetry that ...