We've done these a lot of different ways in the past, but I decided to make them a free for all this year! :) 

 

This thread is a collection place for all Haiku submitted for the contest.  

 

 

Rules:

No poems will be accepted after April 21st.

Voting will begin the week following April 21st and winners will be announced on April 30th! 

 

Haiku MUST follow the PG13 rules AND the rules for the poem (5-7-5!) to be accepted as submissions.

 

You may enter as many times as you like, but you can only win for ONE poem! 

 

 

 

Winners will get:

bragging rights

possible sig swag

(borrowed from: http://www.kidzone.ws/poetry/haiku.htm)

A syllable is a part of a word pronounced as a unit.  It is usually made up of a vowel alone or a vowel with one or more consonants.  The word "Haiku" has two syllables:  Hai-ku; the word "introduction" has four syllables:  in-tro-duc-tion.

 

"Haiku" is a traditional form of Japanese poetry.  Haiku poems consist of 3 lines.  The first and last lines of a Haiku have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables.  The lines rarely rhyme.

 

Here's a Haiku to help you remember:

I am first with five
Then seven in the middle --
Five again to end.

 

 

Because Haikus are such short poems, they are usually written about things that are recognizable to the reader.  Animals and seasons are examples of recognizable topics children might enjoy exploring.

Littly pointy feet
walk across me in the night
small nose in my face.

Found on Dragonmount

Now the Dragon is reborn

The Last Battle waits.

Wrote this on the Big Bend trip beneath aome cottonwoods, wondering I was dying of heat exhaustion ot just had a migraine.

 

Black moths dancing in yellow leaves;

the sand is cool, their voices gentle.