Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. simona pilolla 2 via Shutterstock What's a short, sweet way to express your love? With love haikus! Love haiku poems offer a ...

This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Maryfrances Wagner, who lives in the Greater Kansas City Area. Maryfrances began writing poems as an eighth grader and today writes mainly poetry and ...

To celebrate National Poetry Month, The New York Times started a completely brilliant Tumblr, Times Haiku, wherein an algorithm combs through newly published articles for sentences that potentially ...

It is tempting, though probably entirely incorrect, to think of the haiku (and its close relation, the senryu) as the Japanese equivalent of the sonnet. In both cases you are looking at concise verse ...

3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their ...

A successful haiku could be described as a half-finished poem. Originating in Japan in the 17th century, the haiku uses a combination of sensory language, seasonal references, a sense of contrast and ...