Haiku actually come from the longer tanka form and may be an actual historical example of short attention spans ruining art
the only reason you don’t like the new 34-syllable haiku is that years of reading and writing haiku destroyed your attention span
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Tanka consist of a haiku and two more seven syllable lines that ideally turn the haiku on its head in some way with an abrupt context switch
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I am so disappointed this tweet is 38(?) syllables
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hey so what if there were this old pond right and also a frog let's say. jumping into the said pond i bet you could hear sounds then. from the pond
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honestly though most haiku writers should probably be writing blogposts
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I wrote a blog post, But few understood its point. The meaning was lost. I wrote of ant poop, where normally a kigo: sounds of falling snow.
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If I were ever going to use the fire emoji it would be for this
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