TOPIC: An English Portfolio - A Haiku

Our thirteen year old* had to submit an extensive end-of-year portfolio for her Language Arts class.  It included poetry, a short story, free verse and, interestingly, three haikus.

A haiku is difficult to write because it only has 17 syllables.  However, there is another restriction.  It consists of three verses, the first with five syllables, the second with 7 and the final with 5 again.

One of the haikus she submitted caught my attention.  I thought I would share it with you.  The others were good too, but this one stood out.



                  Life



   Sometimes life happens

So take what it's giving you

         Life is what it is



You can interpret from it what you will!

Oh, she got a the best grade in the class for her portfolio.



* Oh, again, you probably should know this.  She is 13, going on 27...  I know you understand.

Congrats Jay. Just make sure you keep your guns loaded to keep all the young lads away.

Locked AND loaded.