1. Haiku

2. Traditional Form 3 lines 5, 7, 5 Caesura “Kigo” Image from nature
Simplicity, intensity,time

3. Basho On a withered branch A crow has alighted: Nightfall in autumn.
Scent of chrysanthemums
And in Nara
The old pond
All the ancient Buddhas.
A frog leaps in.
Splash!

4. Ezra Pound
“In a station of the Metro”
   The apparition of these faces in the crowd;      Petals on a wet, black bough.

5. Contemporary Haiku Moon's brightness I wonder where they're bombing
—Taneda Santoka
losing its name
a river
enters the sea
—John Sandbach (USA)