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A haiku is an impersonal poem, at least at the first level of reading . It doesn't have a personal involvement. Nor does it express personal feeling, mood, satire, mockery. For
that, there is the senryuu. It differs however from a haiku in that: --
it lacks the mandatory word referring to the season The demarcation line between haiku and senryuu is fluid. A slight change in the expression can move, within the same content, the haiku from one genre to the other. Many of the contemporary haiku are in fact senryuu.
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