haiku

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Recent Examples of haiku This review is close to being a haiku. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2024 Noel, and my best response is a haiku that was written about bar mitzvahs. Haleema Shah, Vox, 13 Oct. 2024 Write a haiku about your morning coffee or try sketching a five-minute portrait of your dog without judgment. Sara Wesche, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025 Reignite creativity by making something useless—a haiku poem about your morning coffee, a sculpture of yourself, a short story intended for no audience. Dale Whelehan, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for haiku
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Noun
  • Each photo is combined with a tanka (a five-line, 31-syllable poem) written through the lens of a 10-year-old girl encountering the Jews for the first time, composed by poet Hiroko Yamagata.
    Josh Hasten, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Her third and most critically acclaimed film, Forever a Woman (1955), is a tender, yearning portrait of a tanka poet with breast cancer and one of the first films anywhere to show a mastectomy.
    Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • The construction is the same -- three lines, 17 syllables, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line and five syllables on the third line -- but the tone and subject matter of a senryu is different.
    Mary Colurso | mcolurso@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The event is open to anyone interested in learning about the modern haiku, senryu and haibun types of poetry, focusing on contemporary free verse forms, not the familiar five-seven-five-syllable structure.
    Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2019
Noun
  • This is the kind of show where deep, lasting soul-filling love is signified by the sharing of a single Shakespeare sonnet.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2025
  • The Emma Lazarus sonnet commissioned for the Statue of Liberty speaks to the White Sox.
    Phil Rogers, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • The bulk of the day would be musical, but the recognition of the Haight’s roots in Beat poetry was essential.
    Dennis McNally, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In the kitchens of Palestine there is a kind of quiet poetry.
    Sami Tamimi August 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There are some touching moments, dirty limericks and a good balance of characters presented by veterans of the scene.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 2 Aug. 2025
  • They were trained to repeat dirty jokes and limericks about Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer to customers.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • That celebrated epigram is delivered by the character of Octave, who is the greatest creation of Renoir’s career—not least because he’s played by Renoir in a performance that’s essentially a self-portrait, even an onscreen self-creation.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
  • Everyone has a right to define the artist in special terms, and to attempt an epigram that will make a reality out of a convenient term.
    John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Much of the chapter is like an elegy to what would be lost.
    Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Vo’s ongoing examination of empire and identity unfolds here as both monument and elegy.
    Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Kretzmer-Seed felt strongly about the inclusion of psalms from the Hallel service as well as a Spanish-Portuguese prayer for those in captivity, which was originally written for victims of the Spanish Inquisition.
    Marla Brown Fogelman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • On Jewish holidays, the Hallel prayer is recited in Shul as a psalm of praise and thanksgiving and collective expression of gratitude for GDs miracles.
    Rafael James, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025

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