Discuss: Kana
Pick Up Your Pens, Readers! In his article "Kana," Chris Dombrowski writes, "Because the haiku is wedded to 'the instant' and to speed of comprehension, it serves as an ideal poetic net for the mind hoping to capture such minnow-quick moments of bafflement or awe." So all you closet poets out there, show us your best three-line poem (that's right -- no more than three lines!) that captures some sweet or unexpected moment. Traditionally, English haiku consist of five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. The Japanese, however, count sounds, not syllables, so we'll give you a few syllables of leeway if you really need it...
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33 Annelies van Dommelen on May 20, 2008
34 chris on Sep 22, 2008
Not hearing
the acorn falling
until the garage roof
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swimming, I raised the rope under the drowning wasp, to give a lift up to the sky, to save a life