Haiku

The metrical pattern of Haiku-

• Haiku poems consist of respectively 5, 7 and 5 syllables in three units. In japanese, this convention is a must, but in english, which has variation in the length of syllables, this can sometimes be difficult.

The technique of cutting-

• The cutting divides the Haiku into two parts, with a certain imaginative distance between the two sections, but the two sections must remain, to a degree, independent of each other. Both sections must enrich the understanding of the other.To make this cutting in english, either the first or the second line ends normally with a colon, long dash or ellipsis.

A recent Haiku presented to me which I thought was quite eloquent:

This morning in bed
I masturbated again
Almost woke her up
-author shall remain nameless