How to Write Bad Haiku
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coach factory onlineThe next section of this hub is inspired by an essay on haiku and senryu by published haiku poet Kathy Lippard Cobb; the middle section reveals one source of bad haiku; and in the last sections I hope to amuse you by taking some excellent haiku, classic and modern, and making them bad.
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2. If one seasonal reference is good (see Kigo: Season Words in Haiku), two, or even three, seasonal references are better.
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3. For a sure fire bad haiku, don't show the reader how you feel: tell them clearly:
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michael kors outletAs she says about this kind of cause and effect "it's not only boring, it's too obvious." In other words, "Well duh, of course you get wet walking in the rain without an umbrella."
