Haiku is form of 19th century Japanese poetry, and it also has many dedicated English-speaking (and writing) poets. I am not a big poetry fan, but I do like haiku. Haiku written in English have three lines: the first line usually has five syllables, the second has seven, and the third has three. I just ran across this haiku by 20st century English poet Roger McGough. I thought his haiku was very amusing, and sums up many poets’ feelings about haiku:
The only problem
with haiku is that you just
get started and then
The only problem
with haiku is that you just
get started and then
. . .
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