Thursday, April 30, 2015

To haiku or not to haiku

My kids' poetry for the day...  The first few are the silly ones.

9-yr-old
My haiku will bore
You will not like it at all
And neither will I

11-yr-old
This haiku is not a haiku
And it is really super wrong
All the lines have eight syllables

12-yr-old
I'll tell a haiku
It has a giant mistake

And now for the one's they actually tried to make into real haiku.  Haiku is actually supposed to be an observation of a tiny thought in the vast expanse of nature.  These poems reflect the intended subject of Haiku:

12-yr-old
A tree's buds will burst
They turn into big green leaves
But soon they will fall

11-yr-old
A flower in bloom
Surrounded by all the grass
And tall trees around

9-yr-old
The fluffy bunny
Hopped around on the green grass
Later, we cooked it

My youngest wrote three actual nature haiku...  This was the most pleasant one.

Addendum:
11-yr-old
The sad little fly
Oh no - he's a black fruit fly
His life just ended

1 comment:

  1. Oh my -- I "love" every one of them (the haikus & the kids)! - Aunt Bernice

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