Haiku: Simplicity, observation, imagination. If you can, find a quiet place where you can sit and observe, uninterrupted, to work on haiku. Focus on a tiny detail, like a color, a texture, or a movement. Explore a few different ways to explain or describe that detail, with just 17 syllables. Your poem could be about anything. Try different angles. Important aspects of haiku:

• A short form of poetry adapted from Japanese tradition
• Often, but not always, based on observations of the natural world, explaining a small moment
• Usually focusing on a particular detail, due to the poem’s brevity
• Usually written in the present tense, about the present moment
• Consisting of three lines. The first line is made up of five syllables, the second has seven syllables, and the third and final line has five syllables. A syllable generally corresponds to a single vowel sound within a word. For example, “hello” consists of two syllables. [Image by Writer1326 on YWP]