Haiku Reflection
Haiku. Haiku, in Japanese means light verse. In a traditional haiku, the first and third line contains five syllables the second line contains seven syllables. In our English interpretation, we decided that every each haiku should be less than 20 syllables.
It was a sunny Sunday afternoon and I was feeling terrible; aches, pains, headache, fatigue the whole package of getting a cold. My parents decided that it was best for me not to come for the Indian festival party that my relatives were having.
So I stayed home watching TV, making lunch and such. A few hours later, I decided to see what homework that I had due the next day. Damn! I had forgotten about the haiku project! I logged on to Weebly and loaded up my Fall haiku page. I looked out of the window for inspiration and it hit me. Fall colors! And pumpkin spiced lattes (not really). Against Fitz's very specific instructions to not use color pictures for our haikus, i did anyways. Why? because it's weird to write about fall colors next a black and white pictures of fall colors. In my winter haikus, I decided that snow was going to be my inspiration. Why? Because I was going to do it on palm trees and pool time, but somehow that doesn't sound "winter-ry". For my spring haikus, I decided that the theme should be the theme should be flowers and rainfall. Spring is my second favorite time of the year because I don't have allergies to color or pollen. I decided that two out of my four pictures should have color, because it is the like the best part of spring. Summer was by far the easiest. All I had to do is picture just a few weeks ago. Remembering all those good memories must have depressed me so my last poem was about death.
I think the haiku project really was more fun than I originally thought it was, but still quite boring. In the end I am still really bad at poetry and I stand firm in the belief that they are as useless as the G in lasagna.
It was a sunny Sunday afternoon and I was feeling terrible; aches, pains, headache, fatigue the whole package of getting a cold. My parents decided that it was best for me not to come for the Indian festival party that my relatives were having.
So I stayed home watching TV, making lunch and such. A few hours later, I decided to see what homework that I had due the next day. Damn! I had forgotten about the haiku project! I logged on to Weebly and loaded up my Fall haiku page. I looked out of the window for inspiration and it hit me. Fall colors! And pumpkin spiced lattes (not really). Against Fitz's very specific instructions to not use color pictures for our haikus, i did anyways. Why? because it's weird to write about fall colors next a black and white pictures of fall colors. In my winter haikus, I decided that snow was going to be my inspiration. Why? Because I was going to do it on palm trees and pool time, but somehow that doesn't sound "winter-ry". For my spring haikus, I decided that the theme should be the theme should be flowers and rainfall. Spring is my second favorite time of the year because I don't have allergies to color or pollen. I decided that two out of my four pictures should have color, because it is the like the best part of spring. Summer was by far the easiest. All I had to do is picture just a few weeks ago. Remembering all those good memories must have depressed me so my last poem was about death.
I think the haiku project really was more fun than I originally thought it was, but still quite boring. In the end I am still really bad at poetry and I stand firm in the belief that they are as useless as the G in lasagna.
