Re: Haiku for 13 April 2008

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:58:21 -0600, Doug Wickstrom
<nimshubur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:15:23 -0400, Kip Williams
><kiptw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Will in New Haven wrote:
>>> Ripple in still water,
>>> When there is no pebble tossed,
>>> Nor wind to blow.
>>> 
>>> isn't quite a haiku but it's lovely.
>>
>>
>>Why not? Because it's not 5-7-5? Counting syllables isn't what makes 
>>haiku, and the number of syllables isn't as rigidly fixed as people seem

>>to think it is.
>
>However, the number of mora _is_ fixed.

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