WHCshortverses - zip and crystalline

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WHCshortverses - Zip and Crystalline Haiku

Selections by Debi Bender
Florida, US

5 haiku In no particular order

Haiku: Zip Format

this sunup...even the usual crows
...stunned...into silence

Kirsty Karkow
Maine, US

...........leaves...scuttle along the pavement
he looks at me...turns away

Semi (Terrie Relf)
California, US

yeowling done...the calico cat
........spreads into.a spot of sun

....from a distance...oh how she flirts
knowing she's safe...in the bus

Victor P. Gendrano
Phillipines / California, US

Haiku: Crystalline Format

A raindrop and a prism'd leaf
and the warbler gave me this refrain.

Debra Woolard Bender
Florida, US

Zip haiku is a 15 syllable fixed-form couplet, a school of Western haiku developed by John E. Carley of the UK.

Learn more about the zip haiku form at The Frogfest.

Crystalline haiku is a 17 syllable fixed-form couplet, a school of Western haiku developed by Denis Garrison of the US.

Learn more about the crystalline haiku form on Ku Nouveau at Haiku Harvest.

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