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Haiku – vertical HAIKU

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Haiku of four lines (sometimes known as haiqua)[20] or longer have been written, some of them “vertical haiku” with only a word or two per line. These poems mimic the vertical printed form of Japanese haiku. You can read these from bottom to top or top to bottom!

she watches
satisfied after love
he lies
looking up at nothing
pw (Blithe Spirit 10:4, 2000)
beneath
leaf mold
stone
cool
stone
Marlene Wills (the old tin roof, 1976)

The highly prolific poet John Martone (b. 1952) specializes in vertical haiku along the lines of the examples above.

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