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[–] 9 points 5 days ago

English haiku don't follow the Japanese rules because a bunch of them rely on language features that don't exist in English. The haiku structure taught in western schools isn't a form actual poets use often.

Wiki has some examples of English haiku that dont follow the 5-7-5 syllable pattern, nor reference to season, but still capture the essence of expressing an abstract thought with minimal language by presenting two short unlinked statements. The last lines of these poems arent explicitly connected to the first two. The reader is left to speculate on the link between them.

old home
the light we’d leave
on, off

beam by beam
the old barn taken down
to sky

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