Remember the syllables and the structure: 5 – 7 – 5. Haiku began in Japan as ‘hokku’ which were the opening stanzas to a longer poem called renku (or rengu). Around the 17th century ...

A haiku has three lines ... uses long and short lines to suggest the sea – look at the pattern in the stanza below: Morning and island man wakes up to the sound of blue surf in his head the ...