What Wikipedia said about Haiku...

Dear all:

Here is the information from Wikipedia related to Hakka 3 Line Poem -
Per Mr. Lou's suggestion, we can use 5-7-7 format, instead of 5-7-5.
Encourage you to try it out...and get revision by others.
It is fun to practice our own Hakkanese.
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Haiku

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Contents [hide] 1 Kireji and kigo 2 Syllables or "on" in haiku 3 Examples 4 Origin and development 4.1 From renga to renku to haiku 4.2 Bashō and independent hokku 4.3 Time of Buson 4.4 Kobayashi Issa's humanistic approach 4.5 Shiki's revisions 4.6 Senryū 4.7 Haibun 4.8 Haiga 4.9 Kuhi 5 Haiku movement in the West 5.1 Blyth 5.2 Yasuda 5.3 Henderson 5.4 Contemporary English-language haiku 6 Worldwide 7 Internet 8 Famous writers 8.1 Pre-Shiki period 8.2 Shiki and later 9 See also 10 Notes 11 References 12 External links

Haiku (俳句, haikai verse^?) listen (help·info), plural haiku, is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 moras (or on), in three metrical phrases of 5, 7, and 5 moras respectively.^[1] Haiku typically contain a kigo, or seasonal reference, and a kireji or verbal caesura. In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line, while haiku in English usually appear in three lines, to parallel the three metrical phrases of Japanese haiku.^[2] Previously called hokku, haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century.