Oulipost #17: Haikuisation. The haiku is a Japanese poetic form whose most obvious feature is the division of its 17 syllables into lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Haikuisation has sometimes been used by Oulipians to indicate the reduction of verses of normal length to lines of haiku-like brevity. Select three sentences from a single newspaper article and “haiku” them.
Spring
All the fields blossomed
Unfolding beautifully
Re-dedicated
Sourced from The Contra Costa Times, Bay Area News Group, April 17, 2014. (SRV grads bolster Chabot baseball, Matt Schwab.)
Sentences used:
- Everything’s unfolding beautifully for San Ramon Valley High graduates Patrick Massoni, James Carter and Travis Hull in the Chabot College baseball program.
- He can drive the ball to all fields and has blossomed into one of the state’s best catchers.
- They ditched the “I” stuff and re-dedicated themselves.
KateMcCarrollMoore 
Nicely done, Kate. I patiently await spring here in Toledo, OH, to prove it’s “re-dedicated!” 🙂
Haiku 1 Thanks this is very good your poetry always is you make me happy—- Haiku 2 Kayak Going to kayak with my beautiful partner hope I don’t fall in!
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