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OftenBen  ·  3148 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Post a photo of you. Right now. Doing what you're doing. And an accompanying haiku

Haikus are hard

Sometimes they don't make sense

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kingmudsy  ·  3148 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Some poems don't rhyme,

And this one doesn't either.

thenewgreen  ·  3148 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My understanding is that originally they were supposed to be centered around nature and that they're held to a 5/7/5 syllabic structure.

user-inactivated  ·  3148 days ago  ·  link  ·