In humanities we are learning about and writing poetry. We started out by doing haiku’s, which are short poems with simple rules. Haiku’s only have three lines, the first line only has five syllables, then seven syllables, then five again. We wrote  a couple to get the hang of it. Later we looked at some haiku’s that were in the New York Times. These were done for a competition  about New York City. You could choose to write about a topic that had to do with NYC. Some of these were, strangers, island, 6 A.M.. In class we also got to choose one of the topics to write about.

I wrote three one was about 6 A.M.. I choose this because I am always up at 6 A.M. and it’s a part of my everyday, but I don’t often think about it. Well I was writing it I really had to think about how everything looks and how I feel. This was a hard because I have to choose descriptive words that also have a certain amount of syllables. I also wrote two haiku’s about strangers. I decided to write those when I was thinking about 6 A.M.. I was thinking about looking out y window every morning and seeing people and wondering about them. I had to come up with several drafts before I got it to the way I wanted. Here are the final poem’s:

6 A.M.

Birds chirping, soft light

The only one throughout all,

Enjoy the time alone

Strangers

What’s it like to be

you on the merry-go-round

of life?

Strangers

Standing there, waiting,

the unknown engulfs me, who

are you? Why always waiting?