Haiku – A Japanese 3-Line Poem.
“Haiku it up!” is a writing assignment that asks you to compose a haiku using a random dailyshoot photo.I was born and raised in Japan, however, I never really had the chance to receive a formal Japanese education. In course of Japanese education, I’m certain that children would work with haiku in class. I had the opportunity to learn and compose haiku back in high school when I took advanced Japanese courses.
It’s sort of funny that I was taught to remember the American Constitution, government system, and history, and not much about the Japan. Everything I learned in elementary to secondary was based on American system of education, so I had no clue what to do when I had to write a paper on Japanese legislation. Me and my fellow classmates had a hard time to do some assignments. Though, we also did fun activities like composing haiku.
The instruction for the assignment misses out some rules for haiku such as use of ?? (seasonal word), but this is not any formal language course or anything. I didn’t add any seasonal word, although, it is important to have it in most cases. Seasonal words become the image of the haiku.
So here we go:
Don’t hold on to now.Lost time’s never found again,
so govern the clock.
- Image: holding on by bionicteaching – CC lisence via Flickr
