Haiku poems were short, and the rules of engagement were simple. The first line contained five syllables, the middle line contained seven, and the third contained five. If you had to read haiku ...

Rene Nienaber of Centennial, winner of The Denver Post’s $25 Haiku contest this week, wrote this on the topic of “autumn”: Scarlet and gold trees Cast their cloaks amid the breeze wrapping ...

Shigeyori was a Kyoto poet. Born in 1602, he published many books of haiku before his death in 1680. The poem expresses wonder at the arrival of autumn; in the traditional calendar, Risshū, the ...

Earlier haiku described their powerful cry “lengthen [ing] the hill [s]”; a poem written in 2022 found them “calling across wintry mudflats, haunting the wind”. Similarly, since 2000, declining ...

Runners up in the haiku contest: Trees relinquish their Autumn glow; the harbinger To winter’s hubbub. — G. W. Enos, Hayward A cascade of leaves Wraps my summer memories In reality. — Harry ...

For five years, Mrs. Lyles was poetry editor of Georgia Journal, a regional magazine. And in 2002, the writer became an associate editor of "The Heron's Nest," a haiku journal.