Haiku

Haiku are short Japanese originated poems  A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.

Haiku began in thirteenth-century Japan as the opening phrase of renga, an oral poem, generally 100 stanzas long, which was also composed syllabically. The much shorter haiku broke away from renga in the sixteenth-century, and was mastered a century later by Matsuo Basho, who wrote this classic haiku:

An old pond!

A frog jumps in—

the sound of water

To me It shows the power of an old pond besting an enthusiastic frog which emphasizes youthful exuberance. No matter the power of the object the water will not croak. Which I feel is symbolic of life in itself our youthful exuberance will be swallowed by the earth. There have been others like us.

Haikus are sphinx like and depict a lot of meaning..

I decided to write some. It may not be as profound as theirs but there will be more. And I made mine unorthodox without following the syllable rules. Here;