Haiku

Weekly Challenges

Ducks on ice

Haiku

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Experience this moment right now. Share it with us in haiku. The traditional Japanese form of poetry generally has these qualities:

  • 17 syllables in three lines of 5/7/5 syllables

  • A theme of nature

  • Might allude to the seasons

  • Written in the present tense about the present moment.

    [Photo by KevinH, YWP archive]

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