Have you ever written a collection of individual haiku on the same subject? If so, you have written an ancient Japanese poetry form called gunsaku (goon-sah-koo).
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Picture Haiku: Chrysalis
Spring weather comes early here in Northern California so it’s a great time to venture out to my garden and prepare it for planting. While cleaning up last week, I found a curled leaf on my patio and snapped this picture:
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Fun with Magnetic Haiku: Raindrops
Do you know how when you go holiday shopping and see something you have to buy for yourself? Yep, me too. :) I treated myself to this little Haiku Magnetic Poetry Kit and have had so much fun sorting through the words to create unique haiku.
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How to Create Haiga (With Paint Blots)
Often called Zen Art, Haiga (hi-gah) combines Haiku and drawings on the same page. The poetry and the images work together to strengthen one another. Japanese poets often created Haiga in ink with simple brush strokes. In my book, How Do You Haiku? A Step-by-Step Guide with Templates, we explore Haiga through paint blots. A swipe of paint on paper feels much like the brush stroke the masters used. This project is fun for the whole family or classroom! Enjoy!
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Picture Haiku: Tomato Leaf Massacre
My garden has been kindly offering all kinds of veggies, zucchini, peppers and yes, fat juicy tomatoes for months. But as we near the end of summer, the snails have been enjoying the fruits of my labor as well! So today, I’m sharing a picture haiku inspired by the nibbled on (and apparently very tasty) tomato leaves I discovered this morning.
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Travel Haiku: Lake Davis, CA
Haiku is about paying attention to a moment in nature and capturing that moment, like a snapshot, on paper with words (before it disappears).
My husband and I recently took the jeep up to Lake Davis near Portola, CA in northern California to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Rather than keep a written journal or take a ton of pictures, I like to poetically record what I see in my travels. I’m sharing some of my travel haiku here today. Some attempts are better than others but hopefully, you can “see” what I saw through the imagery in these poems.
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Blog Hop: Happy International Haiku Day!
Occasionally here on Poetry Pop, you’ll see a Poetry Pop Blog Hop post. This is when we take a field trip and hop over to another blog to see what’s going on. Today we are hopping over to CELEBRATE PICURE BOOKS blog where we are celebrating International Haiku Day and my newly released board book, Peek-A-Boo Haiku. Please come join us!
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A Basket of Easter Haiku
The sun is shining here in northern California, just in time for the Easter Bunny to do her thing. Today in celebration of the holiday, I’ve filled a basket with a collection of Easter haiku. This type of haiku grouping has the official name of gunsaku (goon-sah-koo), which I go into depth about in my book, How Do You Haiku?. Enjoy, and Happy Easter!
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with “H Is For Haiku” (with lesson plan)
Today, I have the pleasure of introducing you to H is For Haiku, a beautiful book on Haiku written by the late Sydell Rosenberg (1929-1996) published by Penny Candy Books. Syd was a charter member of the Haiku Society of America in 1968. She wrote and published her work over a literary career spanning roughly three decades. On this, the first day of National Poetry Month, I can’t think of a better way to celebrate! (And for dessert, we’ll be enjoying a mother-daughter haiku collaboration in a special book below by Syd and her daughter, Amy Losak.
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