Compose Four individual Haiku, one for each season of the year.
And as a refresher:
Haiku is a poetic form from the Japanese culture. Haiku combines form, content, and language into a meaningful, compact form. Popular themes include nature, feelings, or experiences. Usually composed of simple words and grammar. The most common form for Haiku is three short lines. The first line usually contains five (5) syllables, the second line seven (7) syllables, and the third line contains five (5) syllables. Haiku doesn't rhyme. A Haiku must "paint" a mental image in the reader's mind. This is the challenge of Haiku - to put the poem's meaning and imagery in the reader's mind in ONLY 17 syllables over just three (3) lines of poetry!
Example:
Winter:
A Bleak landscape barren
until a blanket of white
snowflakes fall silently
4 comments:
On the offchance people are having a difficult time setting their thoughts out in such a concise format... I would suggest writing how you feel about a season, a brief line or three, then condense it... then pick out the meat of your thoughts and arrange them in a Haiku. Might help, might not... but I remember the one Haiku that I've written that I've liked came about in this fashion. :)
You know, maybe it would help if you had a correct example instead of a 6-7-6 you had a 5-7-5...
6
A Bleak land-scape bar-ren
7
un-til a blank-et of white
6
snow-flakes fall si-lent-ly
Then again I'm from the south, so my speach my be impared.
Typhyn is right -- hope that didn't throw anyone off. I never said I was good at it. Blink. Blink.
Summer:
Sand blowing gently
Reflections off the water
Thunderstorms weeping
Autumn:
Earthtones luminous
Dry leaves dancing on the ground
Scent of burning wood
Winter:
Nature recesses
All void in hibernation
Snow capped mountain plains
Spring:
New flora budding
Streams flowing abundantly
Time restarts its clock
Hope this was the correct place to correspond.
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