Haiku

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The trouble with Love

is you can't know it is real

until it's over

I have always had a thing for writing (and reading) haiku poems--weird, I know, but there's something so satisfying about communicating successfully within the conventions of a style that is necessarily limiting. Maybe its because I generally find it so difficult to be succinct that I am fascinated by the way this poetic style can capture a thought or emotion much more effectively that I could in a whole paragraph (or sometimes more).

Here is one I think is pure genius, written by Karen from makeup and beauty blog (scroll down to number 3).