about haiku

I want to know if haiku should have only 5-7-5 lines
or may have other ?
is his essence refered to nature or descriptive situations ?

Hi Chispa, I found this great article about Haiku::

http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/#whatishaiku

It should help.

thanks Riesa!

I found a haiku source that contradicts much of what this article says specifically the 5-7-5 rule at http://www.haikuworld.org/begin/menubar.home.html

Check it out if your interested.

Dan D.

Hey, Dan D.
That is a dandy website. Thanks for the link.

Self-referential Haiku.

A Haiku's a verse,
With syllables arranged thus:
Five, seven and five.

I love this page, it sums Haiku up.

http://www.worldhaikureview.org/5-1/..._takiguchi.htm

I love haiku.I first heard of them when I was very young.It was in this really creepy novel I read about a mad psycologist who was fascinated by haiku's.
He found a haiku book lying on the bed of his step mother who he killed and took it as a hobby...Amazing no?
We should start posting Haiku you kno..

Just so you know, there is a Haiku thread in the Games section.
Do you remember the name of the book? It sounds interesting.

Do you ever have one of those moments, where the book falls open and you find what you didn't even know you were looking for? This is for the Haiku lovers out there.

BASHO AN
Octavio Paz

The whole world fits in-
to seventeen syllables,
and you in this hut.

Straw thatch and tree trunks:
they come in through crannies:
Buddhas and insects.

Made out of thin air,
between the pines and the rocks
the poem sprouts up.

An interweaving
of vowels and the consonants:
the house of the world.

Centuries of bones,
mountains: sorrow turned to stone:
here they are weightless.

What I am saying
barely fills up the three lines:
hut of syllables.