DOCUMENTS 83. Get Poetic Writing a haiku in place of a dull sentence: a rainbow of words. If you’re not familiar with haikus, they are a form of Japanese poetry that includes:1 2 • Use of three lines with 17 syllables (often in 5-7-5); • Use of a kigo (a seasonal reference); • Use of kire (punctuation that signals two juxtaposed ideas are related). The above example contains the correct number of lines and syllables, the rainbow is a seasonal reference to spring, and the colon acts as kire. 1 See Haiku in English. 2 Technically the traditional Japanese form uses on, not syllables, but the English adaptation translates them to syllables. 51