The 5-7-5 form refers to the number of beats in each section. For example, Bashō’s famous haiku begins furu ike ya, which could be represented musically as five notes: ♩♩♩♩♩. However, haiku are not ...

February is National Haiku Writing Month. According to a definition accepted by the Haiku Society of America, a haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an ...