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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 don’t 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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