Haiku (Birds Singing...) Poem by Jack Kerouac
Haiku (Birds Singing...)
Birds singing
in the dark
—Rainy dawn.
Anyone who sticks to the 5-7-5 syllable rule knows nothing or is outmoded. Even the haiku of Basho when translated in English ignore the rule. Modern haiku could be 1 or 21 syllables.
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I'm sorry, Jack Kerouac. I love you, but your Haiku is a fail. Line 1-presents a problem. Line 2- solves it. Line 3- shows thankfulness.
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A haiku contains 17 syllables in just 3 lines. The first two lines contain 10 syllables(5 each) and the third one contains 7. The poem doesn't meet the criteria of a haiku. Therefore it shouldn't be called a haiku. It may be an expression composed well.