Reading Myself: one-line haiku
Reading Myself one-line haiku “English-language haiku tend to be written in three lines, corresponding to the metrical division of Japanese haiku, but Japanese haiku are actually usually printed in a single vertical column. By way of analogy with this form, poets such as Matsuo Allard and Marlene Mountain began writing English haiku in a single horizontal line—and thanks to their efforts that form has become established in English as the major alternative to the typical three-liner.”-Allan Burns 1 open the strait gate to find endless beatitude 2 i drop the mask as I converse with cross 3 silence of evening is pious time 4 the great war ends and pestilence comes 5 wandering monk grows up doing nothing 6 simply my real self will make me live 7 adore jesus with your every breath 8 in the kingdom of jesus don’t abuse me 9 red rose feels lost in madding crowd 10 virtue is nailed at the cross, and Barabbas goes free 11 better than ...