Within the Context, Joint Force Capabilities, At Decisive Points” — just one of the haikus written by Army officers during ...

Here is an example of a haiku by Lewis Grandison Alexander about rain: Listen to the rain Falling broken on the ground: Pity the sky once. A haiku is a traditional form for poetry from Japan.

Introduce and discuss the 7 characteristics of writing haiku on chart paper. Anchor the idea with examples of each characteristic. Re-read Basho and the Fox and focus on the haiku poetry by doing a ...

Where did haiku come from? Originally, there was a longer poem called a renga or linked poem. The beginning of that poem was called a hokku. Essentially, that hokku was supposed to have seasonal words ...

For example, in east Japan's Kanto region ... for the past two years. Composing haiku at home I asked my younger son to compose some haiku last month. He came up with the following ones ...