How to Write a Haiku Trio

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Summary: Writing a haiku trio requires writing three haiku poems with the five-seven-five syllable structure and putting them together because of complementing themes. Consider allowing haiku poems to stand on their own with advice from a writer and instructor in this free video on writing haiku poetry.

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By Laura Turner
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Laura Turner received her B.A. in English from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., graduating magna cum laude with honors. She then attended the University of Nevada, Las...read more

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"Hi. My name is Laura, and today I'm going to talk with you about how to write a haiku trio. Writing a haiku trio is like writing a regular haiku, except you're going to have three stanzas. Writing a haiku, you're going to be wanting to write a three line poem, comprised of a five-seven-five syllable structure. So your first line will have five syllables, your second will have seven, and your final will have five. Usually a haiku is based upon observations about nature, or about a moment in time, or a feeling. So, you're going to want to keep that in mind whenever you're accusing the subject of your haiku trio. And I have an example of a haiku trio right here, and I'm just going to read it for you. Mist rises, coiling frost upon freshened snowfall. Youth filled Memory. Cold and sticky birth melted form in rounded orb-bulls-eye winter splat! Snowdrops raining lawn. Winter solstice turns the page. Breathing robin song. So, there you have this kind of progression from winter to the melting of winter, in this three phrase haiku. So, whenever you're writing this, you can actually look at this particular one, and you can say, snowdrops raining lawn. Winter solstice turns the page. Breathing robin song. That can pretty much be a haiku on its own. It's not as though the a haiku trio, needs to be a trio. It's almost as though you have three separate haiku's put together, but they compliment each other. The little one is a little more interesting. Cold and sticky birth. Melted form in rounded orb-bulls-eye winter splat! If you didn't have the preceding, mist rises coiling as sort of an introduction to that second haiku, that haiku in the middle there, doesn't seam quite as calm, and sort of free standing. But I think the point of a haiku is that it can be a free standing thing. So when you have a trio of haiku's, I think you can actually take them out and let them stand on their own. But when you want to write a haiku trio, it’s probably because you want to expound a little more on whatever subject you're writing about, in your haiku. So, three lines. When three lines is not enough, have three sets of three lines in your haiku trio, in your five-seven-five format. And experiment with that and have fun."