HAIKU (HI-coo)

·         It is a poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture. Haiku combines form, content, and language is meaningful, yet compact form. Haiku poets, which you will soon be, write about everyday things. It has many themes: nature, feelings, or experiences. Usually, they use simple words and grammar. The most common form for Haiku is three (3) short lines.

·         It is composed of three (3) lines with 17 syllables.

(5) _ _ _ _ _

(7) _ _ _ _ _ _ _

(5) _ _ _ _ _

·         It is originated from the Japanese culture. 

·         It must paint mental images in the reader’s mind

·         It doesn’t have rhyming words.

·         It tackles about nature, feelings, or experiences.

Examples:

·         The python got up

When I walked on the dry grass

Afterwards, he was still.

·         Old Pond by Basho

Old pond

A frog leaps in

Water’s sound

·         (Haiku)

I am first with five

Then seven in the middle

Five again to end.

·         (Frog)

Green and speckled legs

Hops on logs and lily pads

Splash in cool water.

·         (Kangaroo)

In a pouch I grow

On a southern continent

Strange creatures I know.

·         The Rose by Donna Brock

The red blossom bends

And drips its dew to the ground like a tear it falls.

·         A Rainbow by Donna Brock

Curing up, then down

Meeting blue sky and green earth

Melding sun and rain