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Lou Chase, Haiku Master, Teaches You How to Haiku

Bow to your sensei my young, eager padawan. I have heard your pleas and know that you desire insight into the mystery that is the haiku poem. You must know though that if you truly want to know how to haiku, it could take a lifetime; OR you could just browse through this lense and be up and running in no time!

Learn how to haiku by checking out these haiku poem examples, some humorous and some serious.

The Call of Nature

The most important thing about your haiku poem is that it involve nature, and in particular, a season. The season can be implied directly such as-

cruel winter's chill..
OR
soothing summer breeze

or by way of association-

baseball has begun.. (spring)
OR
bodies line the beach (summer)

One of the more popular methods to wriite a haiku poem is that the first line introduce the particular season. In the haiku poem examples in this lense my first line usually sets the scene(the season) and the next two lines describe an event in that scene.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves. A little history in pictures is in order.

Ancient Haiku Master Poet, Sato Killforfun Noburu

No one knows exactly when poets began writing haiku. Some believe that the early haiku poets were violent in nature.

This haiku poem example was supposedly written by the evil haiku master, Sato Killforfun Noburu.

ice cold, blade of steel..
you run away so slowly
like a rolling head

More Haiku Poem Examples

Lou Chase, Master Haiku poet

Arguing with the wife in Haiku: Check out this article where I talk about the 5-7-5 rule. Also a funny haiku of my wife and I arguing, in haiku.
Aqua Buddha and the Obama Birth Certificate haikus: No subject is exempt from the haiku

Early Haiku Freedom Fighters

These early haiku freedom fighters believed that haiku poetry was destined to become more reflective and gentler in nature. In a matter of six weeks they scoured the countryside and captured all known evil haiku warriors. After hanging each one of them upside down for two days they chopped each one of their prisoners into precisely 37 pieces. This is a poem from that era.

thirty seven chunks
your vile stench fills my nostrils...
evil poet man

Comic Haiku Masters

Comic haiku masters began springing up in the early 1900s. One of the earliest known haiku poems from that era was;

warawa seikou
finga- boushi
touhou warai

translated-

look there behind me
I flatulate in your face
every time you fool