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Recent Examples of haiku
As Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa expressed in a classic haiku some 200 years ago:
Under the cherry blossoms
strangers are not
really strangers
The Christian Science Monitor was founded in 1908 to lift the standard of journalism and uplift humanity.
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The Christian Science Monitor,
Christian Science Monitor,
27 Mar. 2026
Can a home furnishing-cabal haiku be far behind?
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Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2026
Best of all are terrace bathtubs crafted from rocks or hinoki cypress wood, filled with hot spring onsen water—plus haiku-inspiring valley views.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Feb. 2026
Woodland features around 25,000 titles of poetry, small press literature, handmade works and the largest collection of haiku in North America.
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Hannah Kirby,
jsonline.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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The Christian Science Monitor,
Christian Science Monitor,
27 Mar. 2026
Can a home furnishing-cabal haiku be far behind?
—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2026
Best of all are terrace bathtubs crafted from rocks or hinoki cypress wood, filled with hot spring onsen water—plus haiku-inspiring valley views.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Feb. 2026
Woodland features around 25,000 titles of poetry, small press literature, handmade works and the largest collection of haiku in North America.
—
Hannah Kirby,
jsonline.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for haiku
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Matsumoto worked with collaborators to translate the book of tanka poems so everyone in her family could read them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.
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Tech was even still cool in late 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT and everyone started giddily re-doing Taylor Swift lyrics as Shakespearean sonnets.
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Her new album, Fata Morgana, uses an array of cascading rhythms, impish hooks, and fierce poetry to interrogate her place in a corrupt American society.
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Avelar is a part of an extracurricular program run by America SCORES Bay Area, a nonprofit that allows students to learn and play the sport of soccer, as well as honing some of their academic skills through poetry.
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He was also known for his haikus and limericks, including some written to summarize ethics.
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These can then be assembled to capture the ladder of logical complexity: patterns of patterns, such as limericks or subject-verb agreement.
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By greatly expanding the dimensions of his images, with their muted palettes, tight cropping, found symmetries, and laconic wit, had the maestro of the photographic epigram betrayed his subtractive aesthetic?
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Johnson is the author of the epigrams, but Boswell is very much the co-author.
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Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.
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The film uses one man’s late life as an elegy for a disappearing Canarian way of being, its rituals, its rootedness, its relationship to the land.
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Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.
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“Haiku.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haiku. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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