We moved on to a new unit: Haiku's. I can honestly say that I am going to miss slam poetry, but I know that I will continue to search for it online and attempting to write it. I have one "slam poem" so far, but it is my first one ever, so I need to keep practicing.
Friday and today (Monday) we wrote our own haiku's:
Tree branches rustle.
Wind whistles through the debris.
Everyone is gone.
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Small silver bullets
Dart away through the water.
Shark remains hungry.
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The second haiku is based on a picture of hundreds of little fish swimming around a shark.
I think haiku's are easy to write. The challenging part is intertwining meaning in with just three lines of 5-7-5. I find the first haiku that I wrote, much stronger than the second.
Out of all of the structures of poems we have learned these past two classes (haiku, tanka, choka, ghazal) the haiku is my favorite. However, none of these have yet made me grow a strong liking or appeal to them. It is possible that more time focused on them in class will change that!
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