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Haiku
Okay, time to air out a pet peeve. Haiku is an ancient art form that cannot be masted by fifth graders. It is not sufficient merely to have a 5-7-5 rhyme scheme, any more than one can successfully emulate Dickinson merely by writing to the tune of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and throwing in some grammatically unnecessary dashes.
Haiku is the written representation of a fleeting aesthetic moment in which the observer becomes one with the observed. The imagery is almost always of nature as a metaphor for mood, often including highly sexual or introspective attitudes. Occasionally, the third line appears to be a non sequitur, but actually relates subtly to the prior twelve syllables. Try writing an independent non sequitur clause as your third line, and your haiku will almost always improve.
Thus:
Waves crash at dewed shore
Washing rock with spittled foam
Paigow hates JRUSS.
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