In honor of National Poetry Month we invite you to Haiku a book. What exactly does that mean? Take a book and tell us about that book in a very simple way: write a Haiku about it.
How to write a poem using basic Haiku form:
and the middle line has 7 syllables.
John Cooper Clark explains his take on Haiku, with Haiku:
"To express oneself
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic."
Read the comments below for more inspiration!
Good Luck and Have Fun!
Please use the following format for your comment: Title of Book, Author and then your Haiku and any brief comments about your book selection.
17 comments, click here to read and post your own!:
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Commitment choose it
and work very very hard
wedded bliss can last.
I had a love/hate relationship with "Eat, Pray, Love". Books with research and stories about other cultures are one my favorites --so are books that lead me to other books, Committed covered both.
The Dragon Princess
by E. D. Baker
Half girl half dragon
she scares her suitors away
this books is awesome!
Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser
Ignorance can harm
eating fast food surely will.
Educate yourself.
The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
by Jerry Dennis
Five nature wonders
Wild fury calm majesty
Captures Water’s Breath
Dennis creates a mystic around the Great Lakes from many perspectives: historical, geological, ecological, and fishing-wise. Any lover of the outdoors would like this book.
AND
Gone with the Wind
Novel by Margaret Mitchell (Movie adapted by Sidney Howard)
Prejudiced system
Crushes crashes withers still
I don’t give a damn
This story is one of my all time favorites. The fall of a societal scourge amid a devastating war is marked by Rhett’s simple statement towards Scarlett.
Punk Marketing
by Richard Laermer and Mark Simmons
Revolutionize.
Thwart the competition, yo!
Bust the mold. Create.
The Biology of Belief
by Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D.
our biology,
spirit reflected in flesh
under microscope
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Secret garden found
Green things twine and vine about
Mary is the bloom
I loved this book as a young girl and am loving it even more as I read it with my daughter this spring. It has inspired us to work in the garden together and reveal all the new green things pushing up. Plus it gives me a chance to brush up on my Yorkshire accent.
Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Fifteen, I first found
True "shock and awe" in your words.
They still ring. Godspeed.
This is not my "favorite" book, but one of the first that had a real impact on me as a reader. I love haiku and wrote this one back in January when Salinger died. Love your challenge (and your question at the Diane Rehm presentation - I, too, marveled at her answer) and may be back for more!
A A Milne's Pooh Bear
too much for a two year old?
not at all. just right.
- I found that most toddlers can recognize Winnie-the-Pooh and all the beloved characters from the Hundred Acre Woods, but their exposure to these characters is usually from TV shows, or simplified "watered-down" versions of the stories; board books, coloring books, T-shirts, etc. Some might consider the orignal source material from Milne's 1926 classic to be a bit archaic and stilted for kids today. They might add that E.H.Shepard's endearing illustrations are too simple and sparce to hold the attention of a young child. A little put off by the overly simplified board book version of Pooh that didn't seem to interest my 2 year old daughter anymore, I sat down with her and Milne's original version. Honey Bees, Woozles, Heffalumps and Missing tails! Riveting!
i love my nieces
what more could an uncle want
two girls, two beautys
White whale in my depths,
are you really salvation?
or my undoing...
I think I want you to guess the title of the book that prompted this response. It answers another challenge because it's also one of my favorites.
At first was the Word,
and all words written since have
fallen so far short!
The Gospel of John, good news indeed for those who find God in the endlessness of the question rather than the foolish finity of the answer. It begins with a poem and ends elliptically.
The Calder Game
by Blue Balliett
A maze, two children
--there is a big adventure:
a boy disappears!
a million miles in a thousand years
by donald miller
when you choose to live
you’ve chose to start your story
what’s your story read?
Dragon Slippers
by: Jessica Day George
Tears, prince, and power,
The mystery of slippers,
dragons, and stained glass
The Complete Practical Guide to Gardening with Annuals, Bulbs and Perennials by Richard Bird and Kathy Brown
today we gardened
inspired in the plant world
this book helped a lot.
The Sisters and the Mom worked on this one... after gardening and catching this years first toad!
Found
Margret Peterson
The Missing: book 1, Found...WOW
Orphan Jonah's life
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