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Recent Examples of haiku
Whether from the literary rules of a haiku or the development of ferns, constraint can be a generator of form.
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Jacob S. Suissa, The Conversation, 25 Nov. 2025
This haiku by Japanese poet Bashō perfectly sums up the experience of first seeing Matsushima Bay: abject awe.
—Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2025
Use it to simplify, not just amplify Ask AI to explain complex concepts in plain English, like in the style of a tweet, a haiku, or for a 12-year-old.
—William Arruda, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
Imagine, for example, asking an AI to evaluate your attempt at writing a haiku.
—Mike Caulfield, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
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Jacob S. Suissa, The Conversation, 25 Nov. 2025
This haiku by Japanese poet Bashō perfectly sums up the experience of first seeing Matsushima Bay: abject awe.
—Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2025
Use it to simplify, not just amplify Ask AI to explain complex concepts in plain English, like in the style of a tweet, a haiku, or for a 12-year-old.
—William Arruda, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
Imagine, for example, asking an AI to evaluate your attempt at writing a haiku.
—Mike Caulfield, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
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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
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
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Recently reissued by original label Rough Trade Records, Songs to Remember epitomizes the group’s attempt to reconcile an art-school background, 1977-era punk ethics, and an obsession with chart pop into a musical statement as stately and cohesive as a book of sonnets.—
Alfred Soto,
Pitchfork,
11 Apr. 2026
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In the Village Voice, where the Consumer Guide became one of the fabled alt-weekly’s go-to features from the ’70s through the ’90s, Christgau wrote like a possessed fan who breathed insight, making every capsule sound like a psychedelic sonnet.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
29 Mar. 2026
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Matsumoto said tanka is the oldest form of traditional Japanese poetry.—
Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Ferrentino writes her in fairly rote terms as a bleeding-heart doctoral student in poetry, and has her politely recede as the play goes on.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
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He was also known for his haikus and limericks, including some written to summarize ethics.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
2 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Holmes’ feed is a babbling stream of self-help epigrams, ankle-deep reflections and many, many photos of herself.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
10 Dec. 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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To say an elegy by heart/to zero our dying before birth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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The show, a sort of elegy for Gen X, opens with a flash-forward to July 16, 1999, the final hours of Carolyn and John.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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The epitome of that tradition is Choral Evensong, an evening service of hymns, psalms and prayers laid out by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant archbishop of the Church of England, in 1549.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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After all, audiences may be captivated by the psalm singing itself, but then can also find more things that capture their imagination in the observational doc.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Haiku.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haiku. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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