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Haiku definition.

06-23-2009 at 08:04:20 AM

Haiku definition.

Contrary to the blurb on the landing page of the OP site, haiku always contains referential images to "nature", without exception. If it relates to anything other, such as an ideation or emotion, et cetera, it is known as Senryu.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.