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HAIKU

WRITTEN BY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN JAPAN





Hello, everyone. We are the first-year students at a senior high school in Japan. We are either 15 or 16 years old.We have been studying English as a foreign language. We have just read about haiku written in English in the textbook, and our teacher suggested that we should try to write English haiku in class. These are the haiku we wrote in late June, 2005, for the first time in our lives. Most of us found it difficult to write poems in a foreign language, but we hope you will enjoy reading them.



CLASS 1


Moonlit
My lover beautiful
like mirage
Summer vacation
little by little
coming over		 Summer vacation
We're idle
summer sea
Summer vacation
wind-bell sound
I feel cool.		 Summer vacation
A crab walking by the seaside
I catch it.
Summer sea
very beautiful
are fishes		 Big shark
running after my friend
summer sea
Very big
very beautiful
summer sea		 Many people
Enjoy swimming
Summer sea
Summer sea
Sun shining
on the beach		 Vivid sea
hot summer
in an instant passes
Children are swimming;
birds are flying,
summer sea		 Sun shining
blue sky
summer sea
Summer sea
Everyone enjoying
Sea bathing		 Blue sea
blue sky
summer sea
Under sun
people gather
summer sea		 Ice cream
watermelon
in the summer
Very hot day
melting...
my ice cream.		 Summer is hot
I eat ice cream
because it is cool
Fireworks
soccer
in the summer		 Look!
beautiful fireworks
summer night
Dark sky
Wide sky
Beautiful fireworks		 Summer night sky
Very beautiful
fireworks everywhere I look
Fireworks
very beautiful
in the night sky
Both green and violet
Both big grapes and small grapes
Very delicious
It's a sunny day
enjoying skiing
with my friends.		 Out of the window
under the Big Dipper
a snowman


CLASS 2


Moon shining
frogs appear
chorus starts		 the sky high
flying
beautiful butterfly
dark sky
a lot of rain
but summer coming soon		 Now summer
very sultry
I want ice
very hot
hotter than last year
I want to eat ice.		 summer is very hot
ice cream
soon melts
come soon
everybody waiting
for the summer vacation		 very hot!
I want
an ice cream.
summer
every night hot
I can't sleep.		 Disneyland
It is raining
But always congested
Now summer
I like baseball.
I'm very busy.		 Summer sky...
Summer sea...
always lively
Blue sky
Blue sea
Black human		 Last summer
I went to the river
with my friend
Fireworks bloom
Dark sky
Midsummer night		 Basking in sunlight
growing up at a stretch
vigor -- a morning glory
Intense heat...
I see mirage.
But no sound.		 Summer is hot.
So I want to go to sea.
Shining sea is beautiful.
It's very hot
fanning myself in class
I must not study.
The moon
nature light
my light shine		 In the mountain
fallen leaves are spread wide
yellow and red everywhere I look
Fall at night
round moon
shining all
Winter
Christmas Eve
Santa will come to my house.		 Today is Christmas Eve.
Mom tells me to go to bed soon,
But I won't, because I'll wait for Santa.





NOTE: As you see, the definite and indefinite articles are missing from many of the haiku listed here. Our native language, Japanese, does not have the equivalent particles, which is why the students do not use them where they are necessary. This time, however, the teacher hasn't corrected their grammatical errors on purpose, because she wants her students to try to express themselves in English without being afraid of making mistakes. Making too many corrections is sometimes discouraging. For this reason, the students' haiku are published just as they have been written.


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