April 15 is National Haiku Day. I’m going to honor national haiku day Bumbling Bea style.
You gotta wonder who thinks up these national days....
When I think of Haiku, I think of gorgeous flowering trees in Japan.
I’m sure there are poets who write them without thinking like I do.
I did a little researching and found Creative.Writing.Now. com. It’s a website founded by writing teachers about writing. One of their pages is about haiku poetry.
The following are typical of haiku:
A focus on nature.
A “season word” such as “snow” which tells the reader what time of year it is.
A division somewhere in the poem, which focuses first on one thing, than on another. The relationship between these two parts is sometimes surprising.
Instead of saying how a scene makes him or her feel, the poet shows the details that caused that emotion. If the sight of an empty winter sky made the poet feel lonely, describing that sky can give the same feeling to the reader.
National Haku Day
In honor of National Haiku Day, April 15 I created a few haiku about the characters of my award winning book, Bumbling Bea. There are several acknowledgements to the Japanese culture in the story so it only seemed fitting.
My haiku aren’t about trees, flowers and clouds, but they are about the nature of human beings. (Get it, get it?)
