Half a Hundred Haiku: Well, of course, you can see the possibilities here. If you have fifty friends, this could be the thriftiest Christmas (or Chanukah or Kwanzaa or Ramadan or whatever) you've had in years. But . . . ah . . . what is haiku? Traditionally, Citizen, it is an ancient form of poetry which seeks to capture the essence of a moment. And, although eBobb's haiku is perhaps less traditional than some, it still employs the official haiku format of three lines, unrhymed, with five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven in the middle.