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Article: Aha! A haiku.
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- January 1, 2006
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Haiku (hi-koo) are short poems, written in a style created in Japan more than 400 years ago--at the end of ancient times. Writing haiku is like catching a lightning bug in a jar. You capture a moment, then hold it up and share it. I wrote this haiku one cold morning:
Out early to feed the birds cat prints in the frost
Japanese haiku have three unrhymed lines. In Japanese, a complete haiku poem has 17 "sounds," called on (pronounced like "own").
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