Poetic Form: Haiku
A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables,
written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.
TOBACCO ADDICTION
When someone you love
Drags killer smoke into their
Lungs. What can you do?
INTERNET PUZZLE
Double - you double-
you double-you is short for
World Wide Web. Bizarre!
METEOROLOGICAL MYSTERY
Precipitation
Falls as hard hail, soft flakes or
Gentle wet. Like love.
DEAD WONDER
The light of our life
Will travel the universe
After the sun dies.
SMARTEST OF ALL
Smart cars, smart phones, but
smart bugs can outmanoeuvre
Antibiotics!
SCARY THOUGHT
I touch my warm skin
Knowing in a few years it
Will be cold as ice.
CLAUSTROPHOBIA!
Bee disappears in
foxglove - not scared like me in
MRI scanner!'
A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables,
written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.
TOBACCO ADDICTION
When someone you love
Drags killer smoke into their
Lungs. What can you do?
INTERNET PUZZLE
Double - you double-
you double-you is short for
World Wide Web. Bizarre!
METEOROLOGICAL MYSTERY
Precipitation
Falls as hard hail, soft flakes or
Gentle wet. Like love.
DEAD WONDER
The light of our life
Will travel the universe
After the sun dies.
SMARTEST OF ALL
Smart cars, smart phones, but
smart bugs can outmanoeuvre
Antibiotics!
SCARY THOUGHT
I touch my warm skin
Knowing in a few years it
Will be cold as ice.
CLAUSTROPHOBIA!
Bee disappears in
foxglove - not scared like me in
MRI scanner!'