In the moment: Zen and the art of Logical Haiku.

From: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

THE JAPANESE POETRY of Haiku is often introduced to young children as a means of experiencing nature and describing this experience via a structured 3-line description, the three lines consisting of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.

I have tried this many times and, despite the ease at which the process sounds, I've never liked any of my work. In addition to sounding extremely artificial, I fight very hard to describe things in the manner noted above.

Do only "creative" people have the ability to write this type of poetry? Does a requirement of "creativity" exclude those of us ...

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