Haiku can serve as a catalyst for discussion and creativity as students work together to create their own poems.

And fitting choice words onto a cardboard scrap, she reflected, is not unlike crafting a haiku — the three-line poem traditionally written in a five-, seven-, five-syllable structure.

To explore different types of poetry and write your own haiku poem. All poems are made up of words. Poems can tell a story or be about a thought or a feeling. They can be serious or silly ...