A baiku is a form I invented which is similiar to a haiku, but is a bit more difficult to write.Whereas a haiku is three lines with syllable counts 5-7-5, a baiku is six lines with syllable counts 5-7-5-5-7-5. In other words, it is two haiku concatenated together (hence the term baiku ...a shortening of bi-haiku ). There is an additional requirement that the it have a rhyme scheme abcabc. (This is what makes them so much trickier to write than regular haiku.) Below is a template for a baiku:
Blah blah blah blah moon
Blah blah blah green eggs and ham
Blah blah blah blah death
Blah blah blah blah June
Blah blah blah blah Sam I Am
Blah blah blah blah breath
If you fill in the blahs with more meaningful syllables, you will have a baiku.
The Baiku
Angel
Desire
Ghost
Guitarist
Reality
Survival
Lorrie
Hawking
She
Wind
Bunny
Clown
Fear
Photograph
Pipe
Block
Laughter
Mary
Obligatory
Luminol
Me
Three
Flowers
Tales From Shakespeare, Retold In Baiku
Hamlet
The Taming Of The Shrew
Macbeth
King Lear
Romeo And Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry IV, Part 1
Othello
