Seven attempts to / write haikus, with varying / degrees of success
Edgar Lin '18

Seven attempts to
write haikus, with varying
degrees of success:

 

To write a haiku:
I really haven’t a clue.
Wait, should it have rhymed?

 

This poem’s concrete:
a cat, in the style of
abstract expression.

 

If this poem’s last line
had five syllables, not six,
it would be a haiku.

Homer’s Odyssey,
translated as a haiku:
Muck. I’m out of lines.

 

Line breaks can be in-
serted in the middle of
words. That’s not cheating.

 

HELM scavenger hunt:
haiku in pentameter.
Where can I find one?

 

Doesn’t the fact that
Japanese is moraic
make these haikus wrong?