Haiku

Haikus have lines of  5 syllables, 7 syllables, and then 5 syllables).  There are a number of benefits from writing them regularly.

Here are some examples I have composed:

I’ve been to the mountaintop.

Not so. A summit.

Still, vast is the view.

 

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A backyard playground.

Laughing dogs, barking kids.

Now…still. Broken home.

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Danger awaits me

So they say, in every way

But I am here now.

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A doughty Amash

Self-manumitted

From “freedom” caucus shackles. 

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Imperturbable

Zen Master, Catholic Saint.

Unfathomable.