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4/5/4 Early Spring Modern Haiku

A chapter in the book One Thousand Cranes

East Wind

by Gypsy Blue Rose


east wind melts ice
off plum tree branches —
bared blossoms blush




 





Kigo (season): Early Spring = plum blossoms

MODERN HAIKU is the English adaptation of Classic Haiku. It's written in one to four lines with no strict syllable count, but brief and often with a long/short or short/long asymmetry. These poems use a pause usually marked by a dash before the satori (an insightful twist to ponder). Images don't need to be taken from nature, though they often are. Seasonality is optional, though often featured. Alliteration and metaphor are okay. Never rhymes. the em-dash ( -- ) is used to emphasize an interruption in speech before the satori. Haiku usually doesn�?�¢??t have a title but in fanstory we have to have one. The Haiku Foundation of America

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