Haiku

Haiku is a type of poem that was adapted by the Japanese. Haiku is supposed to be invented in the 17th century by a Zen Buddhist. It is normally very short and is strictly constructed upon on the seventeen syllables of the poem. There are three lines and it goes with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the next, and five in the last or third line again. They’re normally written in present tense and include extremely vivid details and explain about nature or about normal and daily situations. Haiku topics are generally uncomplicated and easy to understand. They normally don’t use metaphors and similes.

Here is a normal Haiku talking about a computer crashing:
Windows XP crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Here is another Haiku poem but about nature:
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
This poem was by Bashu Matsuo, one of the first great poets of Haiku.