checking in Haiku

Leslie · March 27, 2008, 01:23:06 PM

Lurking here
too busy to write
love you all.

Barb · March 27, 2008, 01:46:47 PM

Rudy says Hello
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Barb says Howdy-Do!

Doxherding Karen · March 27, 2008, 02:56:31 PM

"Haiku" is a form
five-seven-five syllables
allowed in each poem.

Barb · March 27, 2008, 04:01:40 PM

Quote from: Doxherding Karen on March 27, 2008, 02:56:31 PM
"Haiku" is a form
five-seven-five syllables
allowed in each poem.

or a 3-5-3 combination (Leslie's)
mine is the 5-7-5

Doxherding Karen · March 27, 2008, 05:43:17 PM

Really? I never knew of a 3-5-3 comination. Hmmm. . . . let me check on that.

Dr. Robert Frost Leaky

(Cheer up - at least I'm not Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Leaky!)

Ha-Roo, dis is Dr. Basho Lee Kee. Auntie Kah Wen look at internet - all agree Haiku is 5-7-5. One site mention counting syllables in English at 3-5-3 but dis is varient opinion. But I am Chinese, so what I know?

Dr. L.K.