For hundreds of years Japanese poets have written a special form of poetry called haiju. A haiku is a short verse about nature. There is always a special pattern to the number of syllables used in haiku. The first line always has five syllables, the second line has seven and the third line has five.

To learn more about the haiku, check out the The Shiki Internet Haiku Salon .

Here are some examples:

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