Haiku Poetry

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Haiku Poetry
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• Haiku is also called nature or seasonal haiku.

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• Haiku is usually written in the present tense and
  focuses on nature (seasons).

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Haiku Poetry

• Definition
• An unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three
  unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
  (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all.

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Haiku Poetry

• Helpful HintsHaiku is generally not written in
  one long run on sentence. It is generally written
  in two parts. You have a fragment on the first
  or the last line, then you have the body of the
  haiku.

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Haiku Poetry

• Winter sun--a cyclist pedalsagainst the wind

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Haiku Poetry

• Salt-waves caress sand
• tickling my toes and heart
• in their short-spun wake

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Haiku Poetry

• Pink cherry blossoms
• Cast shimmering reflections
• On seas of Japan

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Haiku Poetry

• Warm soup in a bowl
• letters of the alphabet
• hang on the teaspoon

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HAIKU POETRY

• On the following slides are pictures of seasons.
• Now it is your turn to write some Haiku poetry.
• In your journal, write a Haiku poem for each
  scene.

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