The Wolfe Pack has immortalized Mr. Wolfe in song and limerick. Now we ask you to turn your talents to Japanese "Haiku". This form of verse consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. Traditionally and ideally, a Haiku presents a pair of contrasting images, one suggestive of time and place, the other a vivid but fleeting observation. Working together, they evoke mood and emotion. The poet does not comment on the connection but leaves the synthesis of the two images for the reader to perceive.
Samples are below:
Lips move in and out
His eyelids close to mere slits
Nero Wolfe working.
-- Brian K. Mitchell
A Window to Death
It's cold in here, close window!
Murder by ice cream?
-- Walter Doherty
Who grouses and moans
And cultivates the orchids?
Wolfe?.... Nah, Theodore.
-- Jeffrey Wright
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