By Vanessa Richins, About.com Guide
http://treesandshrubs.about.com/od/topi ... ehaiku.htm
Definition:
The haiku is a Japanese form of poetry. It is composed of 3 lines totaling 17 syllables. The form is as follows:
•First line: 5 syllables
•Second line: 7 syllables
•Third line: 5 syllables
Feeling creative? Write a haiku about trees below.
(As of this posting Vanessa's readers had written 15 tree themed haikus. These can be read at the webaddress listed above.)
Other links:
Haiku for People http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/#howtowritehaiku
How to write Haiku http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm
Haiku Habits http://haikuhabits.com/category/haiku-p ... out-trees/
Start Writing Haiku http://inzenity.org/mythku/how2ku.htm
How to write a Haiku Poem http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Haiku-Poem
Begin Haiku http://www.haikuworld.org/begin/mdwelch.apr2003.html
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ENTS,
It looks like we have a Haiku Slam going on here.
Jenny wrote:I know I've posted this poem several times, but never has it been more apt! Seeing this post describing the impossible feats of the oak while cherry blossoms are blooming madly makes it too tempting:
The oak tree.
Not interested
In cherry blossoms.
-Basho (1644 - 1694, Japan)
Jenny, you are up, unless someone else wants to poet here.Steve Galehouse wrote:The cherry tree.
Needs not
the weighty limb.
Gēru-hausu, 2010
Ed Frank
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