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Not Haiku

Rated: E · Poetry · Writing · #2243423

A poetic reflection.

Not Haiku

Dreaming in the mirror of my reading,
I wonder if this clipped Japanese verse
has stripped the abstract reason of the West.

Three lines, each of ten syllables
Free verse
Purely incidental and without prompt.

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