It’s Haiku Poetry Day!

Hello there readers,

Today is National Haiku Poetry Day, a day that encourages everyone to be creative.

What’s a haiku, you ask?

Well, a haiku is a very short form of Japanese poetry that has only three lines in it. The first line should have 5 *syllables, the second line should have seven syllables and the third line should have five syllables.

*Syllables are the sounds you make when pronouncing a word. For example, “afternoon” has three syllables in it (af-ter-noon).

Here’s an example of a haiku:

• An afternoon breeze
  expels cold air, along with
  the fallen brown leaves.

Here’s the same poem broken down into syllables:

• An af-ter-noon breeze
  ex-pels cold air, a-long with
  the fa-llen brown leaves.

Haiku poems are usually about nature, a season, an experience or event.

To celebrate National Haiku Poetry Day, leave a comment below with your own haiku.

See you later!

-Audrey, chickadeeblog@owlkids.com