That's about the size of it.

[mrissa]

LiveJournal Haiku!
Your name:	mrissa
Your haiku:	a hundred words here a hundred words there...and the answer is no
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Created by Grahame

Except it isn't a haiku. Wrong number of syllables. (And no haiku moment or seasonal reference, but never mind that.)

Comments

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

Still...oddly compelling.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Technically, some classical haiku can have somewhat differing numbers of syllables. But no more than one more or less, ususally.

You're right, though, that it doesn't have the imagery associated with real haiku.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

one hundred words in
and then one hundred words out
the season of prose