From haibun to haiku, ghazals to concrete poems, our poets have been experimenting with form with a serious engagement.

Review the chart and add or subtract any necessary rules. Have students write haiku poems about something they feel connected to nature (as Basho did) during independent writing. Have students self ...

Haiku can serve as a catalyst for discussion and creativity as students work together to create their own poems.

I have attached a few poems at the end of the lesson ... by the reader who should be able to understand the object`s very nature. This the ideal set by the Basho-School of haiku.

Haiku: A celebration of fleeting moments, connecting artist and reader through controlled beauty and interpretation.

And fitting choice words onto a cardboard scrap, she reflected, is not unlike crafting a haiku — the three-line poem traditionally written in a five-, seven-, five-syllable structure.