This quarter we have been learning about poems and mainly haikus. A haiku is a poem with three, lines the first has five sylables, the second has seven sylables and the third has five. Originaly hiakus were about nature so tecically this is just a poem with the same format as a haiku.

We bassed these poems after the poems entered in a poetry contest for the New York Times. All the poems entered in the contest were all themed on under 6 topics the island, strangers, solitude, commuting, 6 a.m. and kindness (each of these is an aspect of NYC if you didn’t notice)so first we had to read some of the other poems and get a sense for what they where about.

Next we started our own NYC haikus. To start we choose a topic to base our poems of of. Then we found words that fit structure. Them we began to write our poems. We all helped edit each other’s poems then once we had our final product we read them to the class for some constructive criticism. After that we went back and worked on them some more. And then we finished by editing tha final product.

So now that I have said all that… here is my poem

Strangers:
Walking by a school
You see your unfound best friend,
But never again…