So in the spring of his thirtieth year, Issa set out traveling in the tradition of haiku poets.
For those of you who continue to insist on sending e-mails longer than three (3) sentences, here is a Wikipedia entry on haiku. Reformat your e-mails accordingly, as in this example.
The bird flies downwind. I'm writing a little haiku in my head.
Commuters arriving into Kings Cross are invited to submit three line haiku-style poems on the subject of the British summer from their mobile phones using Twitter.
The haiku anthology, edited by cor van den heuvel and published by doubleday in 1974, is now out of print .
我學得那紙片叫“短冊”（tanzaku），通常上面都寫着清麗的俳句（haiku）或短歌（tanka），輕巧隨風飄蕩。 日本俳句詞彙，每個季節都有些特定的“季語”（kigo）。“風鈴”，正是夏的“季語”——如此鈴中有詩，詩中有鈴，兩者親睦的歷史久矣。 詩之外，紙片上單寫“涼”字段也很多。這是心理戰術，夏天家家戶戶掛風鈴，處處見“涼”，時時見“涼”，好像真會涼快一些。又日式風鈴小巧精緻，多用玻璃、陶瓷或金屬做成，鈴聲細高尖銳，或許聽了令人毛孔緊縮，自然就能抗熱存涼吧。
The ladies who meet regularly in a museum cafe in Cologne skip the gossip and get straight down to haiku, an ultra-brief poetry style that has spread from Japan around the globe.
The small magazine American Haiku began publication in 1963, the first magazine dedicated to haiku in English.
Haibun is the Japanese name for 17th Centurey poet-monk Basho Matsuo's poetic-prose travel journals which were studded with haiku.
This thesis is intended to analyse the style and features of BaSho as well as their role in promoting the development and innovation of the Japenese haiku.
