Haiku ‘snaps’ to capture a moment

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Haiku ‘snaps’ to capture a moment

Greg Judkins
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The patient waits silently for a pause, for the doctor to stop speaking so they can talk from the heart [Image: Christopher Lemercier on Unsplash]

Greg Judkins takes a look at the haiku form of poetry and how it can convey an image or situation using an economy of words

Ambiguity, allowing a reader to discover more than one layer of meaning, is a common device in poetry Haiku are like snapshot pics to the video o