The word haiku in Japanese "俳 句" or in Spanish jaiku, is a generally brief poem of Japanese origin that is composed of a stanza of 17 syllables divided into three verses. In other words it is a short writing that is built from three verses of five, seven and five syllables or blackberries respectively. Blackberries are almost always replaced by syllables when they are translated into other languages. The content of the haiku is based on the amazement and ecstasy that the contemplation of nature provokes in the poet.
Haiku, like other poetic writings, usually tried or tries to expose about different natural phenomena, talk about the change of the seasons or even the daily life of people. Thanks to the influence that the philosophy and aesthetics of Zen exert on these compositions, his style has the peculiarity of containing naturalness, simplicity but not simplicity, austerity, subtlety, in addition to the apparent asymmetry that alludes to freedom and along with this to eternity.
It should be noted that haiku has made an appearance in Latin American poetry, it was around the twentieth century that some Western writers have resorted to creating haikus, but with certain changes regarding the number of syllables in their titles and subject matter; A great example of this can be seen in the works of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges or the Uruguayan poet Mario Benedetti, the latter author of the work Rincón de Haikus published in 1999.
