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| Haiku is the shortest form of poetry. The subject matter of most haiku poems is very simple and can be about anything. In composing a haiku, a poet is celebrating the simple beauty of something, and possibly trying to look at it in a different way than others do, so people reading the poem will appreciate the subject in an origianl manner. The traditional form of haiku is seventeen syllables divided into three lines. The first line contains five syllables, the second line has seven, and the third line has five. Some traditional haiku subjects include flowers, rainbows, seasons, music, animals, butterflies, leaves, and simple events like falling snow. |
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The drowsy meadow now stirrs
Broken from night's spell.
Whispering notes drift
Forth from their captive slumber In the silver strings.
A rustle of reeds
And flashing, glimmering wings--
Was it a fairy?
--Astryd