Free verse is poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular ... okay, maybe not then. A haiku is a very short poem that has some very specific rules. It is three lines long. The first and last ...

Free verse is poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular ... your lips, a cherry". A haiku is a short poem that is three lines long. The first line has five syllables, the second line has ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ... helped him take his free-verse approach that went ...

Haiku is the celebration of a moment, at once transient and transcendent. What started as a rigid Japanese verse form of three ... has to complete it. If a poem ends with the poet, the reader ...