A Christmas Haiku
Nov 30 '03
The Bottom Line Haiku is an amazing way to express yourself and one that I am just starting to learn.
A Christmas Haiku
Chestnuts roasting on
an open fire Jack Frost
nipping at my nose
We all recognize that song dont we. I wonder if when Robert Wells wrote the words to this Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire so many years ago he knew what a classic it would be and at this joyful time of the year someone would realize that the first two verses make a wonderful Christmas Haiku?
Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons. Also described as an epigrammatic ( A s
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