Sinister: Friday afternoon haiku

[alm26 at xxx.edu]

you're right about traditional haiku, but not western haiku... jack kerouac 
made it up: any number of syllables, just three lines.
yep.

uh, hi. i'm a wallflower-extraordinaire, and a lover of tiny poetry. how 
is everybody? i'll go hide again now.

ari

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On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, elise j. spry 
wrote:

> 
> --- William McKenzie <wjmckenzie at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > silence is
> > never silence if
> > you listen
> 
> That was very lovely.  But I just wanted to
> ever-so-gently add that technically, haiku are five,
> then seven, then five syllables.  There, now I've
> finally done something with those four years of
> Japanese I took.  Minna-san, arigato gozaimasu!
> 
> -elise
> 
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