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Recent Examples of haiku
Reignite creativity by making something useless—a haiku poem about your morning coffee, a sculpture of yourself, a short story intended for no audience.
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Dale Whelehan, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
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
The name harked back to an eccentricity in the wording of the BeOS Web browser's error messages: They were all rendered as haiku, the classic Japanese poetry form.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2012
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Dale Whelehan, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
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
The name harked back to an eccentricity in the wording of the BeOS Web browser's error messages: They were all rendered as haiku, the classic Japanese poetry form.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2012
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for haiku
Noun
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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.—
Josh Hasten,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Sep. 2022
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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
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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.—
Mary Colurso | mcolurso@al.com,
al,
19 Nov. 2020
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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.—
Carole Goldberg,
courant.com,
7 Aug. 2019
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Seamus Heaney’s sonnets about Northern Ireland in the 1970s and Annie Ernaux’s memoirs of France in the 1960s propose indirect but approachable ways of engaging with personal and national history.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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Five different stages will host live music, DJs, dance, poetry, and more.—
Lydia Mansel,
Southern Living,
18 Oct. 2025
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Her poetry is nuanced, showing readers the multifacetedness of a Mexican-American family.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
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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
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They were trained to repeat dirty jokes and limericks about Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer to customers.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
10 July 2025
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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
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It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story.—
Jann E. Freed,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Overall, the snippet sounds like an elegy for Bryan’s vision of America.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
8 Oct. 2025
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The film marks his second time grappling with the postmodern author’s ideas on screen, following 2014’s Inherent Vice, a rueful elegy to California counterculture, which was itself the first, and to date only, official adaptation of Pynchon in cinema.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
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The basilica was temporarily shut down on Monday, Oct. 13, and prayers and psalms were said as holy water was showered on the altar, according to the outlet.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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Revered by all three Abrahamic religions, the psalms were often recited, read, and sung in routine worship.—
Brendan Ruberry,
semafor.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Haiku.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haiku. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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