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Yes, i am familiar with the THF's definition of a
traditional haiku, and very familiar with Paul
Mena's award winning poem.  I was curious
because i am reading a 4-6-5 syllable haiku:

snow/flakes fall/ing
on the child's up/turned face
the still/ness of stars

No doubt the enclosed poem is beautiful.

Thank you for your time Alan!

Traditional category:

John Hawkhead's poem "snowflakes falling,"
is this an example of a 5-7-5 haiku?   

John Wills haiku "dusk"

dusk from rock to rock a water thrush


The above haiku did it.

Any poet can learn from any poet regardless of form or
genre: from language to economics to region to culture
to beat to rhythm to rhyme, to form, to birds, etc., etc.

What is the point of the question.

Where do my haiku begin?  Interesting.   Actually many of my haiku derived
from my field notes as a field biologist.   Some come from old free form
poems, performance pems, etc.  How each poem developes
depends upon my mood.  Just about everything I've ever written
is in the moment,  or at least,  in part.

Just because a poem is tiny, it's not necessarily haiku.  Carl Sandburg's
Handfuls, is a good example,  even Gary Snyder's Tiny Words
(if I remember right?) are not examples of haiku, although everyone
is aware that Snyder wrote haiku.