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There are haiku, haibun, and haiga. There is also something called renga, and another poem type called senryu.

The ku in haiku could be translated into phrase, and the bun in haibun means something more like sentence/prose, and the ga in haiga means image, so it’s a haiku poem paired with an image. Traditionally these images would have been ink washes or drawings but these days the image can be a photograph or anything else. It’s a pretty broad and open art form actually, haiku.

The difference between haiku and senryu, which is sometimes easy to spot and sometimes not, is that haiku are more focused on nature while senryu are more focused on human experience. Honestly, I don’t feel that I can truly make the distinction myself, but some people are quite confident in their ability to tell you if a poem is haiku or senryu.

I like to leave those distinctions to others and just keep writing poems that I hope are interesting.