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jjhunter ([personal profile] jjhunter) wrote in [community profile] poetree2012-10-15 07:29 am

Intro Post: The Art of Brevity

[personal profile] jjhunter here: I'm succumbing to temptation and Hosting this week on a subject near and dear to my heart: very short poems, here defined as poems of ten lines or fewer. (For more about me, please see my intro post from the first time I Hosted at [community profile] poetree.) I plan to primarily post my own poems as springboards for broader discussion on all brevity has to offer.

what I can say in
5-7-5: everything
or one thing concise.


To get us started, please share one or more of your favorite haikus in the comments. What makes such haiku work for you?

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Re: Okay...

[personal profile] primeideal 2012-10-16 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, SF haiku! I love the last one in an anthology of short SF from a while ago:

When Proxima sets
What constellation do they
Dream around our sun?