Haiku

Haiku are short Japanese poems with a fixed pattern of three lines. The first and third lines have five syllables (not words). The second line has seven syllables (not words). Haiku are usually about natural things. Read this example:

	When/ rain/ beats/ whip/like And/ for/ests/ cry/ for/ mer/cy The/ rain/bow/ an/swers	5 7 5
a	Using the above Haiku as an example, put a / between each syllable in the poem below.
	A mushroom can be Very determined to grow Pushing dirt aside	5 7 5
b	Write your own Haiku. Write about an animal in your Haiku.
	Draft    Here/ comes/ a/ mam/moth 5 Enor/mous/ Hard/ Tusks/ Long/ Hair/  7 Ex/tinc/tion/ Rules/ Them 5 FINAL Here comes a rhino 5 Big, Strong, Gray, White Horns, And Fast   7 Crash goes the rhino 5                C. Write about a season in your Haiku Topic: Draft    Summer Is Coming 5 Beach, Ice cream, Hot days, And Sun 7 My feet were burning 5 FINAL It’s cold and rainy 5 Hot chocolate warms my body 7 There is snow outside 5