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Digital Traveler: Red Dragonfly Haiku
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Friday, 18 May 2007

Red Dragonfly Haiku



Shot this dragonfly in a Tokyo park. Japanese folklore comes to mind as well as Haiku.

Bout time I wrote a poem. The last poem I wrote was Unautumn, a poem that tells of how the desert has no autumn.

The book "There's a Red Dragonfly on my Shoulder" is an English translation of 13 Haiku poems. Great for the classroom.

Haiku is a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. Here's my example, about...well...a red dragonfly.

Red Dragonfly stops

wings spread aerodynamic

miracle of life.

Go ahead and write your own in the comment section

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