World Literature 272

Haiku Day

Create a Renga (form a group of two)

Members in your Renga ______________________ and ___________________________

Poet #1—Write a tanka

5 syllables

7 syllables

5 syllables

Poet #2 –response or continuation

7 syllables

Poet #1—Write a tanka—(a new one, or a continuation of the feeling)

5 syllables

7 syllables

5 syllables

Poet #2 –response or continuation

7 syllables

J Switch poets and begin again--Remember to include a kigo

ü Please remember--present tense, immediate, sensory

Haiku Examples

Spring

she lifts her head
a tapping at the window
is only rain

a south wind
polishing my face clean
for this journey

spring winds
the old lady tries again
to tidy her hair

Autumn

Autumn moonlight—
a worm digs silently
into the chestnut. Basho

new friends meet
snow-melt streams
into the river

apple blossoms

light carried in my arms
apple blossoms from a neighbor
on my doorstep

clusters talking
together in admiration
apple blossoms

coming to sea cliffs
the off-shore breeze raises
a flower fragrance