Haiku is a strange and specific art. These are the things I understand about it: 1) there are three lines consisting of five, seven, and five syllables; 2) nature should be a prime element; 3) the structure of Japanese (words consisting of monosyllables eg. wa, be, fu) make the lines of a haiku distinct tonally, and of regular lengths (this is completely impossible to replicate in English)—that's it.
For these reasons, and others I've begun a twitter account exclusively for haiku. Because of the restrictions of this form, I attempt to follow the poetical convention of representing liniation in-line. Normally in this way, line breaks are marked by a backslash surrounded on either side by two spaces—twitter only allows for one; my apologies.
