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					<description><![CDATA[Haiku &#8211; First One One of the lessons I frequently gave children was how to write a haiku. There&#8217;s many children (I think maybe many people, but I&#8217;m not here to make that vast a sweeping statement) for whom writing is really difficult, and constraints (such as most poetry has) can support them and focus [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>One of the lessons I frequently gave children was how to write a haiku.  There&rsquo;s many children (I think maybe many people, but I&rsquo;m not here to make that vast a sweeping statement) for whom writing is really difficult, and constraints (such as most poetry has) can support them and focus their work.  So I give lots of poetry lessons, and you can&rsquo;t get much lower stakes than seventeen syllables, so I often start there.  (If they need something even lower stakes, it&rsquo;s acrostic poetry, FYI). I explain the rules and then we write.</p>
<p>And every one of the dozens of times I have given this lesson, I have had to write a haiku.  Because you model it, right?</p>
<p>I am going to start posting those haiku here when I come across them because why not?</p>
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<p>The leaves rise and dance</p>
<p>pushed all around by the wind</p>
<p>trampled as I pass.</p>
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