Haiku is a uniquely Japanese form of poetry that uses vivid words and imagery to capture a feeling or a moment in just three lines. Short but powerful, haiku poems are easy and fun to write and share with your friends. Haiku has become increasingly popular in school curriculums around the world, particularly among teachers introducing students to the art of poetry as well as Asian history and heritage. The activities in this haiku for kids book will show you how to create haiku, and will help you to think up meaningful words and images with which you can write your own beautiful poetry. Write Your Own Haiku For Kids introduces four styles of haiku to readers with clear explanations and numerous examples. This book includes chapters on: Your first haiku how to get started writing this classic form of poetry Haiku about Nature a traditional element in haiku Haibun Haiku with a short story Haiga Haiku with a drawing Renga Haiku that you write together with friends. The study and creation of haiku is a great way to have fun with both writing and reading poetry while exploring an exceptional aspects of Japanese culture.

Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment - and for that reason haiku can be a useful tool for bringing us to a heightened awareness of our lives. Here, the poet Patricia Donegan shares her experience of the haiku form as a way of insight that anyone can use to slow down and uncover the beauty of ordinary moments. She presents 108 haiku poems - on themes such as honesty, transience, and compassion - and offers commentary on each as an impetus to meditation and as a key to unlocking the wonder in what we find right before us. Pausing pausing/halfway up the stair - white chrysanthemums - Elizabeth S. Lamb. This haiku epitomizes a moment that we naturally have or that occurs naturally but that we often hurry or gloss over. 'Haiku awareness is a way to tune into this fleeting moment and merely appreciate what is right in front of us; in the midst of our daily life activities, the possibility to slow down, to stop, and then to appreciate naturally unfolds. For a fleeting moment we simply pause and note the sunlight on the sheets as we make the bed, note the warm sun on our cup as we sip tea, or note the fading light on the curtain as we enter the room. And we let out a breath or sigh' - from "Haiku Mind".

Grisha Bruskin's new sculpture project "H-Hour" examines the idea of 'the enemy' in broad terms: the hostile state, class enemies, "the other" as enemy and even time and death as enemies. The sinister plaster sculptures, abundantly illustrated in this volume, embody a myriad of familiar tensions.

"Archaeologist's Collection," a project by Russian-American artist Grisha Bruskin (born 1945), is set in a future world in which an archaeological dig has unearthed Soviet civilization and attempts to comprehend its mysterious remains.