Subscribe to our newsletter. Creating this sort of poetry is actually quite challenging, yet it is amazingly satisfying when you have successfully composed one of these little three-line poems. Fall is time for rut.
Elk bugling in the meadow, Call forth wary does.
Melting icicles, Glist'ning in the morn's fresh breeze, Drip onto the earth. Wee Indian child, Wearing tiny turquoise beads, Stands in tipi door. Images should not carry over into the subsequent line. True haiku will have a kireji , a pause or break at the end of the first or second line. In English, this effect may be achieved with the use of punctuation such as a comma, a hyphen, or an ellipsis.