Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. The good part? It's short. Traditional haiku consists of 17 syllables. ... Give it a whirl. Again, simply use 5 syllables – 7 syllables ...

However, sometimes poetry can be fun. The easiest ones to write, at least for me, were always the haikus. The pattern was simple, just 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables, and suddenly you had a ...

With 2021 in mind, I looked through the book and found four haiku with the new year as their themes. Here they are, along with commentary from me. I don’t expect all of us to interpret the poems ...

Condensing emotions into just three lines that would otherwise require pages and maestros to be described is what a Haiku does. It is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. Consisting of 3 lines ...

Style Invitational contest Week 921: Naughty “Little Willie” poems; plus the winners of the news-haiku contest.

Read each poem several times and have discussion teams decide if it follows the rules on the chart or not. Give a chance to add or subtract haiku rules from the chart with each poem. If children are ...

And I remembered that a woman I met probably 25 years ago at our children’s soccer game told me that she was in the midst of a year-long project, where she wrote a haiku every day. And it always ...

Hall’s 2000 poem “Distressed Haiku” is clearly about Kenyon—but also, in a broader sense, about moving forward in time when it means growing farther from those you’ve lost.