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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
Later, Navalny discovered that there was no Japanese neurosurgeon, no dead toddler and no haiku.
—Robin Abcarian, Twin Cities, 31 Oct. 2024
Here’s the etymology, this time as a haiku: From Old English roots,
Healf, meaning half or part,
Divide, share in two.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
For those who missed it, a haiku: Think big but act small
Amplify humanity
Measure the results
The news below.
—Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
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Dale Whelehan, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
Later, Navalny discovered that there was no Japanese neurosurgeon, no dead toddler and no haiku.
—Robin Abcarian, Twin Cities, 31 Oct. 2024
Here’s the etymology, this time as a haiku: From Old English roots,
Healf, meaning half or part,
Divide, share in two.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
For those who missed it, a haiku: Think big but act small
Amplify humanity
Measure the results
The news below.
—Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for haiku
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
Noun
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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
Noun
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Millay’s sonnets reckon with the end of love not in a spirit of swooning regret but with brisk, sometimes cynical acceptance.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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But in those years, Shakespeare would produce a bounty of plays, sonnets and poems that have been studied, modernized, adapted, saturized and lionized for decades.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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Hideko Takamine stars as Fumiko, a poor young woman who does manual labor and works as a bar hostess while writing poetry and prose that confront her struggle to survive alongside the feckless and brutal men in her life.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
16 May 2025
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This week, Denim Tears unveils Sweet Corner, a nostalgic, deeply personal collection rooted in the everyday poetry of Jamaica, Queens.—
Karissa Mitchell,
Essence,
14 May 2025
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Until then, feel free to send me your best limericks at mlunsford@tennessean.com.—
Mackensy Lunsford,
The Tennessean,
15 Feb. 2024
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There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.—
Emily Leibert,
Curbed,
2 Nov. 2024
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Her poems of that era — sonnets, epigrams, eminently quotable snippets of rhymed gossip — pulse with the dynamism and attitude of the modern city.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Throughout, Snook hams for laughs, turning Wilde’s witticisms and epigrams into slapstick.—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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It’s remained in the company’s repertoire for decades, and the use of Coltrane’s elegy for the love of her life has made that music into two dirges, one for husband John Coltrane and another for the woman on the invisible mourner’s bench honoring and channeling him for the rest of her days.—
Harmony Holiday,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Lucas’s final film is a kind of elegy for an entire style of personal blockbuster filmmaking, Williams’ funeral music in the last moments fitting for the director’s last moments behind the camera.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
28 Apr. 2025
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The funeral of Pope Francis began with a short musical chant and psalm spoken in Latin after an open Book of the Gospels had been placed on top of Pope Francis’ closed coffin carried by pallbearers from inside St. Peter’s and placed on a red carpet on the edge of the church steps.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2025
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The faithful will recite several religious verses, including psalm 22, ‘The Lord is my Shepherd,’ during the service.—
Caitlin Danaher,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Haiku.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haiku. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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