FrankTo insist non Japanese #haiku adhere to three lines in 5/7/5 is absurd because not even all Japanese haiku does. Haiku was commonly written in a single column, but there are two, three, and four column haiku by Basho, who arguably created the haiku as we understand it. Three-five-three or twelve syllables total seems to fit better with English, but perhaps it’s best to focus on content than length. As long as a haiku can be spoken in a single breath, it’s fine.
Frozen
in the birdbath,
A leaf.
-Jack Kerouac (formatting is slightly off since I can’t indent the second line on mobile)
This is, to my mind, a wonderful #Haiku: terse, evocative, short. At eight syllables it’s “to short” but you can’t really add anything w/o ruining it.
At the train station/platform nine and three quarters/goes to Hogwarts
This is 5/7/5 by my count. But not a #Haiku