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Do You Haiku?
Have a little fun by rising to our Moms Talk challenge and posting your original three-line poem.
Creativity is an excellent antidote to the malady known as “summer brain drain.” Today’s creativity challenge is to submit a haiku to the comments section of Mom’s Talk.
To refresh your memory, the haiku originated in Japan and is interpreted in American terms as a poem with three lines in a 5-7-5 format. It should have five syllables in the first and third lines and seven syllables in the second line.
The theme of our haiku challenge is “Summer.”
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Need examples to get started? I wrote the following haiku in honor of an annoying garden pest whose home country also is Japan.
Lovely roses blooming
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Until you arrived to feast
Relentless beetle
My 11-year-old wrote the following haiku titled, Beach:
Gritty, but soft sand
Endless body of water
Bright sun and much fun
