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Friday, April 10, 2015

Haiku

-Originated in Japan in the sixteenth century

-They usually describe a single image, usually about nature

-Traditional Haikus are 3 lines long

-The poem's most popular form is:
5 syllables in the first line
7 syllables in the second line
5 syllables in the third line

Haiku poems by J. Patrick Lewis



January woods-
a snowy owl chooing one
syllable of wind








A spring peeper's song!
How strange to hear the echo
of winter sleigh bells

Listen to the Spring Peeper!

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