EN340 / IN350 Global Haiku Tradition
Dr. Randy Brooks • Spring 2005
Haiku Unit Plan Appendix 1

Appendix 1
Create your own Haiku!

Where you see several words in a box, choose the one you think sounds best. The words in the first set of boxes give you one line of a haiku, those from the second set of boxes line tow and those from the third set of boxes line three.

When you have chosen the words you like, write the whole haiku out and sat it to yourself, to see if it sounds good. If you have time, write several different versions and see which you prefer. Be ready to read your haiku to the class! Don't forget to have fun!

evening
sunset
sundown
dusk
twilight
late afternoon

by the

river
stream
brook
water
bourne

 

blood-
red-
scarlet-
crimson-
vermilion-
tomato-
cherry-

colored
varnished
painted
lacquered


toenails

 

slipping
settling
vanishing
sinking
sliding


in
into
in the

sand
silt
sludge
mud
squidge


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