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Originally posted by gothweb
There are more rules to Haiku than 5-7-5...
A true Haiku describes a nature scene. It does so by capturing a brief moment, generally without any people or man-made objects in it. It will also be somehow apparent from the conent which season is being described.
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Here are the formal rules for Haiku:
http://www.ahapoetry.com/keirule.htm
The reason many Haiku describe nature scenes is that Haiku's most famous composer, Basho, was an itinerant, wandering zen master. It is not a formal rule of Haiku that it must be about nature, it just happens that many of the more well known ones were composed on that subject.
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