The Pocket Haiku (Shambhala Pocket Library)
Haiku is precise. It conforms to an exact syllabic count: the first line has five syllables, the second has seven, and the third has five. Within that container the poet’s wings expand in all directions, touching the ordinary and rendering it extraordinary. There is freedom in form.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
a haiku is a Japanese short poem form. It has seventeen syllables and is written in three lines. It often mentions a season and something from nature.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku
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