Haiku

is all about concision. With the 5.7.5 syllables (morae) per line, a writer must cut anything unnecessary to get to the heart of their words. Look for it here:

Haiku of Basho

This:
Butterflies by S.M.(M).L.

Let me capture
your innocence,
a caterpillar
in a jar, but when
let go
something more
beautiful and
painful exists.

Becomes this:

Captured innocence:
a caterpillar contained.
Freed, beauty and pain.