Haiku is also called nature or seasonal haiku.

The modern Haiku was fashioned by a Japanese poet in

the late 1800s.

If you can count syllables, you can write

a haiku!

This is one of the easiest poems to learn to write.

Haiku poetry does not rhyme and isn’t supposed to have a

title

Haiku is usually written in the

present tense and focuses on nature

(seasons).

Definition 1An 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.

There are three lines in a Haiku

17 syllables altogetherFive – line one

Seven – line two Five – line three

Yesterday I atebreakfast and grabbed my backpackTo hurry to school

Yes/ter/day/I/ateBreak/fast/and/grabbed/my/back/packto/hur/ry/to/school

Pancakes with syrupWinter’s chill delayed awhileThe bus driver honks

Pan/cakes/with/sy/rupWin/ter’s/chill/de/layed/a/whileThe/bus/dri/ver/honks

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.

Winter sun--a cyclist pedalsagainst the wind

Salt-waves caress sand tickling my toes and

heart in their short-spun wake

Pink cherry blossoms Cast shimmering

reflections On seas of Japan

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

On the following slides are pictures of seasons.

Now it is your turn to write some Haiku poetry.