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Grab your journals!
Label your table of contents “Haiku Notes”!Start a new page and label appropriately!Slide2
Haiku PoetrySlide3
Haiku Poetry
Haiku was created centuries ago.It was treasured for its pure form and exquisite content.
Western culture has grown to love and respect this special type of poetry.Slide4
Step One: Form
Your Haiku should have three lines with or without a seventeen-syllable count (5/7/5). It should be one breath long.
An
old silent pond...
A
frog jumps into the pond,
splash
! Silence again
.
- Basho Matsuo (1600s)Slide5
Step Two: Image
Your Haiku should have a descriptive image. For example, not a
“
flower,
”
but
instead
a
“
purple
iris in the
sun
”
.
Brief
jagged sky
torch
Never
permanent in
sky
Coming
and going.Slide6
Step Three:
Kigo (a season word)Your
Haiku
should refer to nature and hint at the season or weather.
thick
blanket of
snow
snuggling
the flowerbeds
with
a winter wrapSlide7
Step Four: Here and Now
“Haiku is simply what is happening in this place, at this moment.
”
You should write from real experience, not imagination; record the present moment.
a butterfly flew
calmly settles on my cheek
try, I must not breatheSlide8
Step Five: Feeling
Your Haiku should not explain or tell, but instead show the feeling through your image.
your
beautiful soul
lights
of a thousand fireflies
keeping
the path clearSlide9
Step Six: Compassion
Your Haiku should express openheartedness toward nature.
The
last winter
leaves
Clinging
to the black
branches
Explode
into birds.Slide10
Step Seven: Surprise!
Your Haiku should have an
“
ah!
”
moment that wakes us up
.
In other words, your haiku should affect the reader in a way were they are left pondering your words.
words written on walls
reflections
of yesterday
living
here todaySlide11
Nature
Nature within haikus is traditionally about the leaves, seasons, and animals.
Modern haikus tend to look at
human
nature as reference for their poems.Slide12Slide13Slide14
Your Assignment!
Create a haikuChoosing from all your natures
At most twelve stanzas
Feel free and lively
Like the river coursing through
Let the words flow
Tell me about you
and the choices that you’ve made
rising from the ash