In Japanese a typical haiku has seventeen "sounds" (on) arranged five, seven, and five. Traditional Japanese haiku include a "season word" (kigo), a word or phrase that helps identify the season of the experience recorded in the poem, and a "cutting word" (kireji), a sort of spoken punctuation that marks a pause or gives emphasis to one part of the poem.

In English, season words are sometimes omitted, but the original focus on experience captured in clear images continues. The most common technique is juxtaposing two images or ideas (Japanese rensô). Punctuation, space, a line-break, or a grammatical break may substitute for a cutting word. Most haiku have no titles, and metaphors and similes are commonly avoided.
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  Recuperation 

hibernated veins
of a sterilized self
seeping life anew!
 

  Classrooms 

patients dosing in
rare-conditioned wards 
school year confinement!

  Beckoning Light 

 block-white shadow
wombing up the choking black
o'er nocturnal preys!



  Salt Doll 

i am
dipped  down your bosom 
 a pinch of salt!

  

  Predator 

 winged guard
soaring suburban shanties
preying a prayer!

 

  Predestination 

out into the world
no reason to celebrate
man ready-made rules!

 

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