A Great Start to a New Semester!

Well, I'm officially excited about this semester! You guys have all been great, and I'm looking forward to all the lessons we'll learn from each other in the next 16 weeks. The first "week" is over, and the fun is just about to begin (and so is the work - sorry! lol).

I was playing around with the haiku. For those that don't know, a haiku is a Japanese form of poetry that contains only three line; 1st line has 5 syllables, 2nd has 7, and 3rd has 5. The definition of the term, from The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature is as follows:

"A style of lyric poetry borrowed from the Japanese that typically presents an intense emotion or vivid image of nature, which, traditionally, is designed to lead to a spiritual insight. Haiku is a fixed poetic form, consisting of seventeen syllables organized into three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Today, however, many poets vary the syllabic count in their haiku."

There are a lot of variations today with this form. Here's a website with several examples of haiku (notice the singular and plural are written the same way).