Over time, the single-stanza poem called "Haiku" has been held to a variety of different standards. Often the Haiku was expected to have three lines and seventeen syllables -- in a 5-7-5 pattern. But this year as we now (in February) celebrate National Haiku Writing Month, relaxation of the syllable constraint is encouraged -- and the challenge of writing one-Haiku-per-day also is encouraged.
Here, using syllable-counts, is a "no-seven" Haiku (offered on the seventeenth)!
one two three four five
six eight nine ten eleven
twelve, thirteen, fourteen
the "no-7" haiku inspired me to discover that the first 13 whole numbers make a haiku: 0,1,2,3; 4,5,6,7,8,9; 10,11,12
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