What is Haiku? Well according to the New Oxford American dictionary it is, " a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world."Well Sonia Sanchez's book, Morning Haiku, does not fit this definition but it does invoke some lovely images. "Your mouth/a sweet wind/painted in hieroglyphics," or how about this one, "your poems/yellow tattoos on the/ morning dew." She doesn't have the right number count according to the definition given but she does often use the natural world to describe her sense of life.
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