Writing Activity: Hay(na)ku

At this week's meeting, I taught club members how to write hay(na)ku poetry. I suppose it is a variation on haiku, if you know what that is. Hay(na)ku focuses on word count rather than syllables. Follow the links if you want to read more about those forms.

Basically, to write a hay(na)ku poem, you arrange six words in a tercet (a three-line stanza) by composing groups of one, two or three-word lines. We added a restriction to our process to use a word in each stanza from a list that we brainstormed (car, rock, TV, wall, paper, desk, petal) before getting started.

If that sounds confusing, maybe reading a few of our results will help you see what I am describing.