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Happy National Poetry Month, April 1.
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7th Graders, in celebration of National Poetry Month, how about writing one Haiku poem.
Instructions: Haiku is an ancient form of Japanese poetry, written in three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line. It is usually concerned with nature, but doesn't have to be. Try to capture one perfect picture in words. Remember, you only have seventeen syllables. Don’t waste them.
Examples:
Clinging to the black branches
Explode into birds
Poetry is so many things beyond what we traditionally think. Check in at the Poetry 180 website, where American poets gather 180 days of poetry, delivering a poem a day to students.
The Blue Bowl
Like primitives we buried the cat
with his bowl. Bare-handed
we scraped sand and gravel
back into the hole.
They fell with a hiss
and thud on his side,
on his long red fur, the white feathers
between his toes, and his
long, not to say aquiline, nose.
We stood and brushed each other off.
There are sorrows keener than these.
Silent the rest of the day, we worked,
ate, stared, and slept. It stormed
all night; now it clears, and a robin
burbles from a dripping bush
like the neighbor who means well
but always says the wrong thing.
—Jane Kenyon
That’s your daily writing prompt for Wednesday. You can interpret the poem, that is, say what it means, or merely react to it. How would you feel if you lost your pet? How does the narrator feel?
Or maybe this inspires you to write one of your own, or any short response. Usually you read a poem out loud and, at the very least, two times, so do that!
Any kind of writing you would like to share with me should go in your English folder. Title it "Daily Writing" and date each day and write the prompt as you would in your physical writer's notebooks. You also give it a permanent home (to have and look back on someday) even if you are not sharing it with me!
Any kind of writing you would like to share with me should go in your English folder. Title it "Daily Writing" and date each day and write the prompt as you would in your physical writer's notebooks. You also give it a permanent home (to have and look back on someday) even if you are not sharing it with me!
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