This is not a conventional Haiku,
as you can tell by the line length,
the syllable count,
and the number of lines involved.
In fact, it has no recognisable form.
and it doesn’t even rhyme.
It might not catch on,
but it’s good to buck the poetic system
once in a while.
When is a Haiku
not a Haiku?
Well, now, for example.
It started off like one,
then descended into nonsense,
And it’s not a Tanka either.
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What about a Monday Haiku?
It’s Early in the week,
so shouldn’t we all seek
a Haiku for the day…
but, maybe it would be better
if we just gave it a miss this time.
This is not a Haiku
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a Haiku –
Hash tag just saying.
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In seventeen short words,
I can say that my monosyllabic haiku
is not a thing that exists.
This is not a Haiku.
Why?
Because I don’t write those;
they are far too fiddly,
what with their syllable count
and line length;
I’ll stick to Free Verse,
where I can just roam
like a butterfly in Spring
visiting flowers.
Today.
Today is just a Friday,
even though I thought it was a Saturday;
how could I get it ‘so’ wrong?
Three lines, not five;
and the correct number of those syllable things,
that should do it.
No more the calm ones,
with all words carefully placed –
Haiku in the wild
should never be approached –
lest they become fierce in their haste.
This is not a Haiku;
it has too many syllables,
and doesn’t rhyme at all;
then there is the matter of the long fourth line,
and the short fifth.
This is not a Haiku;
and anybody who says it is…
… see above.
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.
Graeme Sandford 