Wednesday, 7 March 2018

War Game: A Haiku


WAR GAME

Inside, tin soldiers
Play war on foolscap paper;
Outside, a bird sings.


A Haiku is a verse with seventeen syllables, in three lines with the strict form of 5-7-5 syllables in the three lines. Originally a Japanese form of poetry, it has now been adopted by poets in other languages.
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