The Characteristics and Vocabulary of Haiku “Poetry in microcosm—a world of ideas in three brief lines of verse” (Britton, pg.7). Haiku are “thought-provokers.” Haiku poets are not interested in ...

As a class, make up a poem with two images. List ideas on board. Put two images together to form haiku. Have students write their own haiku, I always recommend that you write when your students do.

This haiku by Bashō is based in part on an anonymous waka in the Kokin wakashū poetry anthology: Hototogisu / naku ya satsuki no / ayamegusa / ayame mo shiranu / koi mo suru kana (The cuckoo ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Recruitment news every morning. The first winning poem of our weekly workplace haiku/senryu contest by Valerie Nelson of Edmonton ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. SKOWHEGAN — Downtown Skowhegan is being haiku bombed. On store windows ...

Haiku are three-line poems with five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven syllables in the second line. In their study of nearly 4,000 haiku, recently published in the journal PLOS ...

Turns out haiku doesn’t need to have three lines—and other things you might learn on a tour of Japan’s historic poetry sites. A 17th-century feudal castle overlooks Matsuyama, Japan, the ...