Tuesday, September 1, 2026

A contemporary haiku

 

It’s adamantly
innocuous, tangibly
delicious, munchy.

– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2026)

Note
This one sort of parodies the contemporary (over)use of unusual adjective / adverb constructions, which must have originated from some creative writing workshop teachings or simply is trendy. Their purpose seems to be to inject more poeticity.

1 comment:

  1. Relieved to learn it's an intentional parody! I think the plethora of things labelled haiku which aren't haiku is due the teaching in schools that a haiku is three lines of 5/7/5 syllables and that's it. (The least important rule in haiku.)

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