My feeling about the deviations from the 5-7-5 haiku is rather the same as it is about non-pentameter unrhymed sonnets: It may be "technically correct" for the person immersed in the poetry scene who feels comfortable discarding such old fashioned and artificial conventions, but to both the lay reader and the experienced reader, who've read respectively a handful and a ream of works that conform to the traditional expectations, anything much outside of those simply won't satisfy.
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