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May 2010

Volume LIV Number 5

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Poetry

The Ideal

Andrew Lansdown

 

The haiku ideal—

crafting a poem with the help

of a proven form.

 

ii

The haiku ideal—

counting syllables until

the syllables count.

 

iii

The haiku ideal—

writing three balanced phrases

of five-seven-five.

 

iv

The haiku ideal—

saying in one breath things that

take the breath away.

 

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