If you search for #haiku on Twitter, you'll not only come up instantly with a heap of haiku of all shapes and sizes, but even while you're beginning to read those on the screen, another twenty to forty tweets will appear with more haikus in them (if haiku can be pluralised like that....)
It's a simple form that everyone and his/her brother/sister has a go at. Including yours truly...
Cooking silverbeet soup
last year's crop
stalks of gold, red, yellow, green. 23.9.11
curly-headed blonde toddler –
mysteries of genes –
straight-haired ginger-coloured dad 28.9.11
At the moment I'm trying to get the hang of the form itself, in its best-known arrangement.
