American Haikus
I need the freedom to haiku without rules
A few years back, I fell in with a cohort of poets who challenged each other to write Haikus on our topic of the day. While others found this highly restrictive form of poetry helped open and expand their creativity, for me the required discipline was suffocating and restraining. So, instead of writing three-line poems of five, seven, and five syllables, I created the American Haiku genre, that like America itself, is undisciplined, unregulated, and filled with expressive freedom. Enjoy my American Haikus. . .
