Yolanda, You really struck a cord with your confession that although you understand that the modern haiku in English doesn't have to be 5-7-5 that you have a very strong emotional need to hold to that standard. That has been my reaction exactly. Recently, a face-to-face workshop I attend tried haiku at my suggestion. I found myself very dismayed by those poems that failed to meet the strict standard and ended up in a heated argument with one free-verser who refused to write any at all because he said any idiot could count to seven.
Will be interested to read your work and to see further discussion of these forms here.
Mary
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