Haiku
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Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that has three lines divided like this:
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
Many Haiku have nature as a theme... but not always.
Haiku can have alliteration and rhyme and ... or not.
"What am I?" Haikus:
Green and speckled legs,
Hop on logs and lily pads
Splash in cool water.
In a pouch I grow,
On a southern continent --
Strange creatures I know.
Or just Regular HaikuTornado warning!
My brother in the basement
Searching for southwest.
Señora Gámez
y la Señora Thompson
enseñan mucho
The cat is not all
bad. She catches many mice
and brings them to me.
Wonderful Wellstone
So near the rolling river
Minnesota made
