Three summery haikus are coming your way, thanks to The Young Writers Initiative and their summer camp! In case you don’t know, haikus are three-line poems which are usually about nature and originate from Japan. The first line has five syllables, the second seven and the last another five. I’ve created three haikus on the overall topic of summer: Dappled, Joy and False Night.
Dappled
Interlock, dainty
fingers, beneath the willow
tree–the dappled light.
Joy
Under young sunlight,
we dance, we sing, we live life,
small toes, springy grass.
False Night
Why do we come in
at nine? Sunlight graces us
’til ten. Nine? False night.
Oskar Leonard 