HAIKU

Haiku is a traditional Japanese  three-line poem with seventeen syllables, divided in lines with 5/7/5 syllable pattern. Haiku generally focus on images from nature. Often untitled, it is a striking feature of the haiku that direct discussion of the poem's implications is forbidden. Sometimes writers of this form take leeway by a syllable or two either way and even transform other variables, such as reverse haiku 7/5/7.

Touch

tender bud blossoms

cloistered in satin and lace

neath a virile thumb

REVERSE HAIKU

Early Spring

may apples huddle in groups

morel mushroom shade

beneath an elm umbrella