Haikus

“And sometimes your haikus make me laugh,” Nahla added. ❋ Amanda Marrone (2011)

It's nearly cherry blossom time, and we're soliciting haikus the three-line poems that have five syllables in the first, seven in the second and five in the third in honor of the humble Japanese bloom. ❋ Unknown (2011)

You can also send us your own haikus there we'll be adding more over the coming days or on our guide to the National Cherry Blossom Festival. ❋ Unknown (2011)

From haikus to videogames, obstacles boost performance. ❋ Jonah Lehrer (2011)

One of our Box Seats bloggers has a Caps season-preview set of hockey haikus (offense, defense, goaltending and predictions). ❋ Lindsay Applebaum (2010)

Are you trying to write haikus or are you just showing off your lack of education? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Check out some of the haikus on our haiku randomizer, which scrolls through some of the best submissions with a quick click. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Prone to creative outlets of their obsessions like shanties or themed haikus ❋ Peggy (2009)

I was pleased with your haikus, Mr. Basketball said in class the next week, handing them back to us. ❋ Alison Espach (2011)

And yet, most poetry depends on forms with exacting specifications, such as haikus and sonnets. ❋ Jonah Lehrer (2011)

He explained to me that while the poems I wrote were interesting, they were not haikus. ❋ Alison Espach (2011)

He writes moving haikus from letters cut out of the newspaper. ❋ Michael Seidel (2011)

The Japanese are known for their brevity in literature, mostly with the worldwide celebrated haikus, but their sense to get down to the point and write the distilled and concentrated essence of their topic crosses into speculative fiction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here at the Going Out Guide we're immersed in all things cherry blossom, not the least of which are readers' haikus honoring the spring bloom. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I * could* re-write this comment in a sequence of lame haikus, but I figure being clearer trumps being clever. (* crosses fingers*) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since the earliest hominids sounded their pre-literate, poetic musilanguage to one another, since ancient Greek orators recited poems at the Olympic Games, since the first Griot in Mali turned the history of his tribe into poetry, igniting a tradition carried on by his descendants today, since Sappho's lyrics, Basho's haikus and Rumi's ghazals, poetry has been known to be a necessary nutrient in the human diet, as essential as breath or music. ❋ Unknown (2010)