Welcome to the Online Home of the Haiku!This site is a valuable and uniquely comprehensive resource of information relating to the haiku. We focus on the English form of the verse, a development of the original Japanese poetic form. If you would like to :
Then you are in the right place. In the English language, this poetic form usually features seventeen syllables, often positioned in three lines. For the more scholarly amongst you, we also include details of the history of the the form, its literary principles, and further explorations of the experience it provides. We include contemporary and traditional examples, and studies of the great poets that have contributed to its historical development.
     
This diversity of content makes us your number one online source for haiku related enjoyment.
These short poems represent the perfect medium for sharing experiences. They have the power to encapsulate one's perceptions and provide a portal into the moment the writer themselves witnessed. They provide minor dramas that often serve as metaphors for the wider dramas of life, and the insight and moments of revelation they can induce reflect this. By writing one of these poems, the author is inviting the reader to share in their own personal experience of life.
For an overview of the site, visit the Site Map, which shows the variety of content we host. This includes poems based on many themes including animals, love and hilarity. Other themes include birthdays, school and kids. We also have funny off-the-wall poems, and an assortment of famous examples of the form.
If you don't know what this kind of poetry is all about, then head on over to this introduction to get a good idea.
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