Haiku

Poetry
Haiku is also called nature or
seasonal haiku.
 Haiku is usually
written in the
present tense and
focuses on nature
(seasons).
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Definition 1
An unrhymed Japanese verse consisting
of three unrhymed lines of five, seven,
and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17
syllables in all.

The 5/7/5 rule was made up for school

children to understand and learn this
type of poetry.
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Helpful Hints

Haiku 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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Salt-waves caress sand

tickling my toes and heart
in their short-spun wake
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Pink cherry blossoms

Cast shimmering reflections
On seas of Japan
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• On the following slides are pictures
of seasons.

• Now it is your turn to write some

Haiku poetry.

• In your packet, write a Haiku poem

for each scene.