What makes good haiku?

[hondo 50]

What makes good haiku
I really do not get it
Can you explain it

 

[gtopa1]

No I can't
But if I could
I no tell you

Edit: to 5-7-5

No I can not say
But if I could understand
I no tell you now

 

[BULLDOG]

Silent words like streams
Seventeen beats, ebb and flow,
Natures soul unfolds.

 

[gtopa1]

In mid-winter frost
find solace in the melting
And be warm again

 

[gtopa1]

The Real “Rules” of Haiku — The Poetry Place

This article is for: Beginner and Intermediate poets

www.writebetterpoems.com

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

Now I know the rules
And I see their depth and light
Now darkness is gone

 

[BULLDOG]

In mere five-seven.
Haikus tell more than they seem.
A world in small breaths.

 

[todd down under]

1. Wherever you are, look closely at something that’s in front of you (book, table, dog, flower…).
2. Study this object for a few minutes, and think about it in as many ways as you can. For example:
   —Where it came from
   —How it was made, created, or grown (as applicable)
   —How/where/when it was acquired
   —How it has been used
   —What its appearance shows about its history
   —What people have thought of it
   —What it would say if it could speak.
3. Take one moment of insight from that process, and work it into two lines: one of 5 syllables and one of 7 syllables.
4. Then take another aspect of your thinking, and add it to the poem as a final line of 5 syllables.

 

[hondo 50]

I like the haiku
It's very easy writing
Almost like rhyming