Ideas for Haiku Poems Haiku is a traditional Japanese poetry form from the thirteenth century. Back then, what we now know as modern haiku were the first few lines of longer collaborative poems, called renga. Many false starts to the first stanzas of renga, known as hokku, were set aside,...
April is National Poetry Month, which is just around the corner. This post includes 25 ideas for teaching poetry to instill a love of poems!
February - Poems, Quotes, Folklore, Ideas, Chores Chinese New Year Creating Circles and Ceremonies: Rituals for all Seasons and Reasons by Morning Glory and Oberon Zell-Ravenheart. Cupid, Luperci, and the Valentine's Day Saints Cuttings - February. Haiku and short poems by Michael P. Garof...
Nature's Embrace in Every Bouquet Blossom Poetry, Petal Passion Blooms Whispering Love Stories Elegant Petals, Timeless Tales Floral Fantasies in Full Bloom Rhymes of Roses, Love Encloses Garden of Verses, Bouquets Rehearse Poems in Petals, Love Settles Verses of Violets, Hearts So Quiet Rhapsody ...
I think that senryu poems, which do not require seasonal words, are less restrictive than haiku poems.One way is to make a senryu first and then add some of the seasonal words for the original.Anyway,Haikai (haiku/senryu ) is a play on words.I hope you can enjoy it.季語を必要とし...
Thanku: Poems of Gratitudeedited by Miranda Paul Masterful poets explore the many different ways they feel gratitude. Love this book for inspiring “THANKU” poetry – haiku poems about something you are thankful for! (You can find this lesson in my bookPowerful Poetry!) (Millbrook Press, 2019...
The Language of Spring: Poems for the Season of Renewal Edited by Robert Atwan Frost of Spring Green: A Collection of Poetry By Karen Matsuko Hood No Nature: New and Selected Poems by Gary Snyder Garden Poems: Pocket Poets Edited by Jane Hollander Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems ...
Paleography is a popular field, attracting some of the best young Chinese academics. When I asked Professor Liu about this, he told me that up until the 1970s, “We had these classics like theShangshu[the Ancient Documents], and for two thousand years they didn’t change. Now we can see...
Nature You don't need to travel to the ends of the Earth, just take a walk in your backyard, along a creek or through a botanical garden to generate inspiration for a sonnet. Choose simple things, such as a bird building a nest, a caterpillar emerging from its chrysalis, a stray cat...
and to treat the image with a hard, clear precision rather than with overt symbolic intent. The influence of Japanese forms, tanka and haiku, is obvious in many. Most of the imagist poets wrote in free verse and they like to emply common speech. They stressed the freedom in the choice ...