HAIKU

Lightning flickering
without sound . . . how far away
the night-heron cries!

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To quote 1-3 lines of poetry in your text simply enclose them in quotation marks within your text. Don't forget to list the line numbers at the end. Separate each line with a /

Basho writes, "Lightning flickering / without sound" (1-2).

Four lines of verse or more should be indented one inch from
the left margin. Don't use the / marks to separate the lines.