Haiku is...

I had originally posted this on one of my many forgotten blogs, and just recently came across it again. As I find interesting perspectives on what haiku, or poetry in general are, I will endeavor to post them here (at least until I get bored of doing so or forget about this blog, too :)

‎"A real haiku's gotta be as simple as porridge and yet make you see the real thing, like the greatest haiku of them all probably is the one that goes 'The sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet.' By Shiki. You see the wet footprints like a vision in your mind and yet in those few words you also see all the rain ...that's been falling that day and almost smell the wet pine needles."~ Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969), Source: The Dharma Bums, Page 58

Stay Poetic!