| Haiku poems have a long Japanese tradition. It can | | | | rules that make a poem a haiku can be adapt to |
| be dated to centuries ago, so what makes haiku | | | | other topics. So while we take the haiku poems |
| poems so relevant to the post modern area? | | | | from their original contests but keep the format |
| How come haiku poems are still relevant to our | | | | the same we basically transform them to other |
| time? | | | | kind of haiku poems. |
| The most common topic of the haiku poems is | | | | Take for example computer haiku poems. It is |
| nature. As a human kind we are a big part of | | | | widely known that we are living in an area which |
| nature and it will always be like that. Therefore | | | | is mainly characterized by the presence of |
| nature poems will always be actual for us and | | | | computers. It is only natural that we will have |
| people will always have fun and big joy to read | | | | haiku poems on that topic as a part of our |
| short poems regarding the beautiful landscapes | | | | popular culture. Some might claim that this |
| that surrounds them. | | | | attitude is ruining the Japanese poems or that it is |
| However if the haiku poems will not adapt to the | | | | not a haiku poem at all. But others say, and I |
| area we live in right now they might be vanished | | | | tend to agree that it is actually preserving the |
| from our awareness and be only a part of the | | | | poetry tradition. In this way people who were not |
| history – written long ago. But the end of | | | | familiar with this kind of poetry, not only get to |
| haiku poems is yet to come, mainly because the | | | | known it but also adapt it as a part of their life. |
| format of those poems. It seems that the set of | | | | |