Waylaid on the Road to Riches
Haiku!
O.K., everyone who was forced to write a haiku or two at some point in their schooling, raise your hands. That's pretty much what I thought. You can put your hands down.
Being the haiku is, as I suggested, the premiere form of school-child torture (literary style), we'll keep this brief:
- Lyric poetry form, Japanese in origin
- 17 syllables, arranged in 5/7/5 syllable-length lines
- Ideally captures the ephemeral beauty, delicate impressions, unspeakably breathtaking, blah, blah, blah
For those of you who like your haiku with a little more bite, do yourself a favor and visit Ms. Kristen Freilich's haiku page. Trust me, you'll thank me. And for more incentive, be advised, Miss Freilich has included among her mini-opuses a breathtakingly beautiful and painfully accurate assessment of Waylaid co-author, Kay Peterson, rendered in haiku form.