Haiku in Black

a haiku differs
from other poetic forms
its words are ordered

into syllables
(as opposed to rhymes)
as in 5 – 7 – 5

the meter is key
in japanese poetry
and no the phoneme

like a palindrome
from 5 to 7, then home
signifying close

european poems
open out and forward-think
always incomplete

they build it on rhymes
never repeating their rhymes
for a second time

to them, it is dumb
but to us, it is refined
we see words in time

they see words in space
repetition spells disgrace
redundant, they say

we hear words in time
even if the words repeat
they are not the same

(because the times have changed.)