We invite students to write a haiku (Japanese 3-line poem with 5,7,5 syllables) to submit during the last class on August 20th (Play day). Every student who submits a haiku will receive a gift certificate for Kneads Bakery worth 2 cookies (one for you, one to share!).
Haiku usually invoke natural images of the season:
Ah, summer grasses!
All that remains
Of the warriors dreams.
- Basho http://www.haikupoetshut.com/basho1.html
short summer night--
a deer pokes his face
through the fence
- Issa http://haikuguy.com/issa4kids/issashaiku.html
