Haiku the 17 "on" of a traditional Japanese haiku. Because the normal modes of English poetry depend on accentual meter rather than on syllabics, Henderson chose to emphasize the order of events and images in the originals. Nevertheless, many of Henderson's translations were in the five-seven-five pattern. The first haiku written in English was arguably by Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro", published in 1913. Since then, the haiku has become a fairly popular form among English-speaking poets. English haiku can follow the traditional Japanese rules, but are frequently less strict, particularly concerning the number of syllables and subject
Haiku Mill became the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company division of Alexander & Baldwin with one remaining mill at Puunene. The Haikū area later became a pineapple plantation. The former cannery at 810 Haiku Road is now a shopping center called the Haiku Marketplace. Only the walls of the mill were left standing when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hawaii on February 6, 1986 as site 86000189. It is state historic site 50-046-1622.. The mill is located at 250 Haiku Road, . Haiku Mill The Haikū Sugar Mill was a processing factory for sugarcane from