Hollywood Haikus

A haiku is an ancient form of Japanese poetry. From the Wikipedia entry:

Haiku (??) is one of the most important forms of Japanese poetry. A traditional haiku poem consists of exactly three lines of approximately 5, 7, and 5 phonetic units (morae) which only loosely corresponded to syllables in English. They also contained a special season word — the kigo — descriptive of the season in which the haiku was set. Haiku often combine different elements into a unified sensory impression, with a pause (the kireji or “cutting word”) at the end of either the first five or second seven phonetic units. Although rarely broken by Japanese haiku poets, these rules are often broken in the later, more “free-form” haiku movement, both in Japanese and in other languages.

Suffice to say that here at Hollywood Haikus we tend to break a few of these rules. In fact, the only one we were really aware of was the 5-7-5 syllable one, and I’m willing to bet we’ll probably break that one at some point.