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Haiku is Hard

January 17, 2012
By Blairezie GOLD, Montrose, Colorado
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"You must never give in to despair. When there is no hope, you give yourself hope. That is the true meaning of inner strength." -General Iroh

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How much emotion
Can be born in seventeen
Syllables? So much.

So then why am I
Unable to harness it?
My poems are dead inside.

No emotion comes
From these words but frustration
And desperation.

Anyone can count
Syllables. The trick
Is to make them sing.

Haiku is easy.
But good haiku? That is a
different story.

© Michelle L., Syosset, NY

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