Here's a version of one I once posted at the Deep End. My question: Does the attempt at a combination of forms (and the resulting syntactical development, esp., in this particular example) stray too far from the Haiku tradition to be considered "haiku"—even that word as an adjective, if not as the form?
Butterfly Haiku Rondeau
Tend toward joy although
butterflies in spring bestow
no flutter: vague dreams.
Other seasons' memes
lost in chrysalis are flow—
hard heart but no show.
Hot wet and cold snow—
old men and their older themes
tend toward joy.
Grave waters shall go
to fill the tomb, and we know—
whole love like that seems
like loss; but Loss! deems
the butterfly born, and so
tend toward joy.
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