HAMDEN-- Its structure is succinct and to the point. It normally speaks to things of beauty: nature, love, spirituality. Oddly enough, though it's a form of poetry that's been around for thousands of ...

If you ever had a unit on haiku in English class, the brunt of your effort reading and composing haiku was probably spent counting out the syllables: five-seven-five across three lines. Local writer ...

April is National Poetry Month and today’s Classroom Extra page wants to bring out the poet in you. Read on to learn how to write one of the world’s simplest and oldest forms of poetry – haiku. Haiku ...

For me, writing a haiku a day began as a practice on my birthday, October, 2022. It was a hard fall. We’d all made progress digging out of the most difficult pandemic days, but my life as I’d known it ...

Every day for more than two years, West Seattle's Danny Bland wrote a haiku. Three lines—five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables. Danny Bland wired his writing mind to this traditional ...

What's a short, sweet way to express your love? With love haikus! Love haiku poems offer a concise and beautiful way to share your feelings with someone you care about. Whether you need something ...

If it feels like winter is dragging its feet, here’s a harbinger of spring: Golden Triangle’s annual haiku competition—the one that plants blossom-pink yard signs with haiku in tree boxes throughout ...