Writing Poetry

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Assignment for April, 2018

• haiku,
The big four: Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, and Masoaka Shiki.

5-7-5, nature, six senses, brief moment in time

ふるいけや
かわずとびこむ
みずのおと

古池や　蛙飛び込む　水の音

old pond
frog jumps in
water’s sound
-Matsuo Basho

• Haibun (Collection of five haiku under a single theme)
• Tanka 5-7-5-7-7

• limerick,

AABBA rhyme scheme

A limerick is a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.
Edward Lear Home Page

a fly and a fly in a flue
couldn’t decide what to do
said the fly “let us flee”
said the flea “let us fly”
so they fled through a flaw in the flue
-based on original by Ogden Nash

• Where I am From Poem