Haiku ? What you want ISN’T POETRY Nor, is what you are making . Its a crossword puzzle! Restricted, confined not necessarily useless, but unwanted by the rest of us. What I want is not poetry . ITS A SOAPBOX , not respected Obeyed !
(Don’t expect us to revel in your artificial cleverness. I can’t candy coat my sledgehammer for the smug little puzzle palace where people confuse compression with clarity and restraint with relevance or innovation. )
It’s not the form that’s brilliant . Neither is a form that hinders it. It’s the purported slickness of mediocrity pretending to be insight. Like rain-slick ****: shiny on top, but still just ****** over processed garbage. No real expression had syllable count as its impetus !
Why do you Want to mimic Basho, any way ? Are you a scared feckless samurai boy toy trapped in a ***** house that serves tea ? Are you socially stunted and rambling through a whispering ******* zen garden to pretend enjoyment in polite torture ? Emasculated wannabe samurai-boy’s tea-party , crybaby daddy issues art act, much ?