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Recent Examples of haiku
Think of each video as a haiku—concise, impactful and memorable.
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Paul Getter, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Friday market haiku Terran Orbital, The sad, struggling satellites
Frown from outer space.
—Laura Bratton, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2024
The Bye-Ku. High-fantasy quest Boosts real-life creative stats All across the board
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Have your own newsy haiku?
—Drew Goins, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
France could pull this off If parties would share glory
Solo podium
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Have your own newsy haiku?
—Drew Goins, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
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Paul Getter, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Friday market haiku Terran Orbital, The sad, struggling satellites
Frown from outer space.
—Laura Bratton, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2024
The Bye-Ku. High-fantasy quest Boosts real-life creative stats All across the board
***
Have your own newsy haiku?
—Drew Goins, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
France could pull this off If parties would share glory
Solo podium
***
Have your own newsy haiku?
—Drew Goins, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for haiku
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Each photo is combined with a tanka (a five-line, 31-syllable poem) written through the lens of a 10-year-old girl encountering the Jews for the first time, composed by poet Hiroko Yamagata.Josh Hasten, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
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Her third and most critically acclaimed film, Forever a Woman (1955), is a tender, yearning portrait of a tanka poet with breast cancer and one of the first films anywhere to show a mastectomy.Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
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The construction is the same -- three lines, 17 syllables, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line and five syllables on the third line -- but the tone and subject matter of a senryu is different.Mary Colurso | mcolurso@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2020
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The event is open to anyone interested in learning about the modern haiku, senryu and haibun types of poetry, focusing on contemporary free verse forms, not the familiar five-seven-five-syllable structure.Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2019
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Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
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And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024
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Activities include an art workshop, open mic and poetry slam, artist talk, traditional African music and dance, and more.John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
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Guided by the voice of Pulitzer-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the solo work uses history, memory and poetry.Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
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Until then, feel free to send me your best limericks at mlunsford@tennessean.com.Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 15 Feb. 2024
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There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
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On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
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No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
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Tell, yell, hell, hello, elegy, tottle, otology, geology, theology.John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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Worm’s visualization of his collection, then, is an unwitting elegy of species pushed to the brink of existence by human pressures.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
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He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 15 Mar. 2024
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Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Haiku.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haiku. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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