A Haiku a day
is too much for some people –
by just one Haiku.
“It’s so quiet here,
because we are all at home,
and our lives have changed.”
This is not a Haiku,
even though it does have
the word Haiku in its title,
and also in lines 1, 3,
8, and 9;
but, surely, you can see,
by its structure
that it is not a Haiku.
A Haiku is short –
much shorter than this poem –
and has fewer lines.
When a Haiku cries
the world is a sadder place…
as all poets know.
As if a Haiku…
with all its twists and its turns,
could not satisfy.
Take just one Haiku
into the shower with me?
You’re having a laugh!
With just a first line
and a second, but no third.
Just five minutes left
until the end of the world –
time for a Haiku?
Just when a Haiku
is getting into its stride
it comes to a halt!
Not the Haiku’s fault,
it’s just the way that it is –
too short by a mile.
Though, I have to smile,
when some clever poet-type,
ignores all the hype,
and adds another line.
Too much seriousness
for one haiku to contain –
if you know what I mean.
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