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Recent Examples of haiku
This review is close to being a haiku.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for haiku
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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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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
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The Emma Lazarus sonnet commissioned for the Statue of Liberty speaks to the White Sox.—
Phil Rogers,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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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
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In the kitchens of Palestine there is a kind of quiet poetry.—
Sami Tamimi
August 6,
Literary Hub,
6 Aug. 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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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
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Much of the chapter is like an elegy to what would be lost.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Vo’s ongoing examination of empire and identity unfolds here as both monument and elegy.—
Nel-Olivia Waga,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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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
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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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“Haiku.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haiku. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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