[
US
/ˈhaɪku/
]
[ UK /hˈaɪkuː/ ]
[ UK /hˈaɪkuː/ ]
NOUN
- an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
How To Use haiku In A Sentence
- A tanka is a 31 syllable poem that pre-dates the Haiku. BC Bloggers
- I am listening to your day-tales, though I wonder that this time might be better spent mistranslating health warnings from foreign cigarettes and pasting them to a gallery wall or, perhaps, composing a biro haiku on the arch of a foot, proclaiming: Day 9: Better Spent Time
- Her poetic styles vary from haiku to streetwise dramatic monologue, using the conventions of ‘standard’ English, as well as the defiance of Ebonics.
- Their e-mails were 'tortured haikus of indirectness', so he told me. Relationships Of Mutual Mistrust
- Haiku a Japanese classic ditty by the 17 components of a divergence in pronunciation.
- I'm having the most enormous fun sifting through the mound of accumulated poems and haiku, bringing order and accord where there was none.
- We asked you to submit your bestest most chucklesome haiku about the fact that Abi Titmuss had become good pals with David Beckham on the set of Goal 2.
- In class they warmed up with haiku written outside in the garden (it was a hot evening).
- It tastes of deepening autumn and makes me long for one or two haiku [seventeen-syllable Japanese poems to capture the feeling.
- Many Japanese haiku were written as one-line poems (written vertically).