For a new form of English Haiku
5 min readDec 31, 2023
It’s shorter than a tweet, but leaves an impression that lasts lifetimes.
The standard English haiku is 17 syllables long and split into three lines. The quantity of syllables comes from the Japanese haiku practice to write lines 17 mora long. I am unsure where the practice of breaking it into three lines comes from because standard Japanese haiku are written on a single line. Perhaps it was inspired by the…