Write Your Own Haiku
by Jacqueline Horsfall

Sometimes the beauty of our world makes us want to sing out loud. For centuries, poets have turned words into joyful celebrations of our environment.

Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry about the beauty of nature's seasons. Here's a sample:

A cool fall evening,
pumpkins in the farmer's field --
a full moon rising.

The first line has five syllables, the second has seven syllables, and the third has five.

Try writing your own Haiku about nature or something of God's creation. E-mail it to Pockets, and it might appear on the Pockets web site!