Calling all island poets for a beloved contest and event — Mukai Farm & Garden’s annual Haiku Festival. The contest, ...

Local nonprofit Pollinator PowerWorks recently announced a haiku contest to celebrate the role of pollinators in the ...

Imagine having to write a poem about a topic you find interesting and funny. Now, imagine doing it in just 17 syllables: five in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. What you ...

Haiku is Japan’s traditional poetry. Three lines of precise numbers of syllables, concise, but with deep meaning, always appreciative of nature. Very representative of this ancient culture.

February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

A haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable structure, often conveying deep meaning in a few words. In this instance, the Danish diplomat’s haiku ...

haiku a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world. a poem in English written in the form of a haiku.

I also count syllables. I’ve been writing haiku for the Courier for over 10 years now ... Frequently, I assigned a poetry notebook and taught many different forms of poetry, many structural or ...