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    50 Haiku
    50 Haiku
    50 Haiku
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    50 Haiku

    By David Francis Jeffery

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    I've always loved Haiku and have attempted to write them before but always got stuck on the traditional, locked in 5-7-5 syllable count. My dad gave me Jack Keourac's book of Haiku for my birthday one year and he invented his own system, whereby he eschewed the syllable count and kept the three line system, as he thought that better for Western speech. I liked the idea of inventing my own Haiku system but I still wanted to keep a syllable count, just to have some sort of regimen to adhere to. While walking my dogs one day, I experimented with the count and found that, certainly for my speech, thirteen syllables was perfect. Hence these 50 Haiku. I have many more but, this is a good start.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Francis Jeffery
    Release dateMar 29, 2013
    ISBN9781301742875
    50 Haiku
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    David Francis Jeffery

    David Francis Jeffery is a writer living in Australia with his wife and daughter. He has a had a few things published here and there and has self-published two chapbooks and a literary magazine in the early '00's. He writes everyday but not everyday does he write something worthwhile.

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