Robert K Foster23 May 2003

Haiku
The haiku is a japanese poetry form, evolved from the renga during the 16th century. It is a three line, unrhymed set of seventeed syllables (5-7-5).

It is typically a pair of contrasting concrete/sensory images, with each image so dependant on the other that the whole thing collapses if one word is altered.

this is neither good nor a haiku. maple syrup on sugar on a pile of trite pancakes.