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Haiku by Hebeblue - July - 2003
Giró mi vida
y sobre tu mismo ser
mi mundo voló...
Haiku: is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities:
- The essence of haiku is the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them.
- Traditional haiku consist of 17 sylables in three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 on respectively.
- A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such words. The majority of kigo, but not all, are drawn from the natural world. This, combined with the origins of haiku in pre-industrial Japan, has led to the inaccurate impression that haiku are necessarily nature poems
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