hike-who?

Yesterday I decided to do something fun with the kids I tutor. I'd mentioned writing poems before, to which they responded with scrunched noses. Since I'm a sneaky teacher, I tricked them into liking poetry by telling them it was a puzzle. We spent the whole hour writing 3-line poems with 17 syllables. I let them keep their papers, but here are my haikus.

"4 Corners"
India, Japan
Mexico, Romania
Lybia, Brazil

"October"
Baking in the sun
Floating on the afternoon
To the earth below

"Alliteration"
Bubblegum balloon
In my beard and in my bed.
This is very bad.

"me + you"
In a city park
Scarred by lovers' pocketknives
Do still the hearts bleed?

Of course haiku is a Japanese form of poetry, and we're obviously not Japanese, but the point was to have fun with words. The typical English pattern is this:

Line 1: 5 syllables

Line 2: 7 syllables

Line 3: 5 syllables

...but since we can't write a true haiku in English anyway, don't sweat the numbers too much. Try it!