Modern Haiku

Modern Haiku

Many modern western poets do not subscribe to the 5-7-5 pattern. The Academy of American Poets recognizes this evolution, but maintains that several core principles remain woven into the tapestry of modern haiku. That is, a haiku still focuses on one brief moment in time, employs provocative, colorful imagery, and provides a sudden moment of illumination.

 

Here are seven examples of 20th-century haiku poems:

 

From across the lake,
Past the black winter trees,
Faint sounds of a flute.
- Richard Wright

 

Lily:
out of the water
out of itself
- Nick Virgilio

 

ground squirrel
balancing its tomato
on the garden fence
- Don Eulert

 

Nightfall,
Too dark to read the page
Too cold.
- Jack Kerouac

 

Just friends:
he watches my gauze dress
blowing on the line.
- Alexis Rotella

 

A little boy sings
on a terrace, eyes aglow.
Ridge spills upward.
- Robert Yehling

 

meteor shower
a gentle wave
wets our sandals
- Michael Dylan Welch

 

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• 三句詩 -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/07/2022 postreply 17:49:53

• 現代俳句 -心存善念- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/08/2022 postreply 07:45:21

• Some nice ones. Lily can't get out of water -甜蟲蟲- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/08/2022 postreply 11:26:52

• they are so good at catching a moment in life -心存善念- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/08/2022 postreply 12:15:58