Grandma’s Haiku for Children, Paperback by Holt, Connie; Revell, Sharon, ISBN 1981185968, ISBN-13 9781981185962, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Haiku is a traditional Japanese poem written in three lines. There are five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second, and five syllables in the third line. It usually doesn’t rhyme and conveys a direct through to the reader. A collaboration by two award winning grandmothers: Connie Holt, Poet, and Sharon Revell, Artist.