Hakiu
Snow
Cold white and fluffy.
Falling from the sky all night.
Crisp bright wet light fun.
Limerick
Snow Days
Sleeping is what I love
Snow days are a gift from above
The shovelling is tough
and the weather is rough
but, snow days are what I love.
Based on my experience on writing these poems, I can say that some poetic forms are very limiting whereas, others are not so restrictive. The more restrictive form would definitely be the hakiu. In most traditional hakius the content revolves around weather/seasons also, it follows a strict syllable pattern of five, seven, five. This strict form makes the content a poet can use within a hakiu very limited. As for the limerick as long as the content fit into the a a b b a rhyme scheme and the five lines the poem can be about anything. Thus a limerick for the most part can have a pretty broad content range; all the way from intense feelings to silly rhyming stories.
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