Haiku: “My Third Eye”
The third eye can see what regular eyes can’t or is only open when the regular eyes are closed. It is a magical eye.
I took this idea from Doobleh-vay and coupled it with one of my favorite forms of poetry, the Haiku. I let the kids do the exercise and then helped them turn it into haiku. It was surprising how well it worked.
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My third eye sees God
Calories, inside people,
Germs and atoms, too.
My third eye also
Makes me small then big again;
My third eye sees all.
—Benjamin (age 7)
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I see a jungle,
And money grows from the trees.
Gold falls from the sky.
Tigers have stripes
Of yellow and brown with a
Polkadotted tail.
—Olivia (age 9)
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My third eye shoots fire.
I can see around the world;
Giant peanut, too!
My third eye also
Sees millions of fish swimming,
Cat in the Hat, too!
—Mikey (age 10)
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April 4th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Clever idea! Those are great haikus.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:20 am
This is beautiful!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Love , Love , LOVE this. I taught ESOL for a semester and interestingly I gave my students a haiku exercise and the results were absolutely striking. Cool Beans!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I saw that on her site as well, and I hope to do it with the kids tomorrow. I love your idea of turning it into ku.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Those kids have such vivid imaginations, M. I love Mikey’s shooting fire. Hee hee. He’s a dragon.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Not only is that REALLY clever, they are VERY creative (like their Mom). Very cool.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:10 am
oh, i want benjamin’s third eye that makes him small, but i don’t know that i want it to make me big again…
April 4th, 2008 at 10:50 am
I love the imaginatioon of children. So very enlightening.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:25 am
those are really good! very creative!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Creativity
runs within your family …
These Haiku are cool!
Imagination
encouraged is a true gift!
Lucky children these
to have such a mom
as yourself … inviting these
fine explorations!
Hugs and blessings,
April 4th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
These were wonderful, your kids are very creative. Thanks for sharing!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
I know your life is busy and all, but please make even more babies, Mishi. The world needs even more kids who’ve inherited your wonderful creativity and talent. Those were fun!
April 4th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I think you have some poets on your hands there!
April 4th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Yay!!! You got the kids involved again! So cool.
Also, I just finally read your birth stories from Lotus’ birth carnival last night. Beautiful, amazing stories!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Love these. (Mickey’s is my favorite)
Have a good weekend!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I love when your kids do the haiku!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
What a fabulous idea for the kids :) I love how creative they were with this. Olivia especially with her “money grows on trees”- that’s a smart girl ;)
April 4th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
You know? I first did haiku when I was a kid, probably about Benjamin’s age. I hope they don’t wait 25 years (like I did) to write more haiku(s). :)
April 4th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
thanks doll for the linky love! I am so impressed with the kids! Awesome! I posted about walt whitman today
xo amy
April 4th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Yay! Benjamin, Olivia, and Mikey, I very much enjoyed your haikus. Thank you for sharing them with your mom’s readers. :)
April 4th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Wow, Benjamin is IMPRESSIVE!!!!!
April 4th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
They turned out amazing.
April 5th, 2008 at 12:27 am
That is so fantastic! Really great job. It totally made me nostalgic to have little kids again though.
April 5th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
These are terrific - kids are so smart! And teachers are too!
April 5th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
What a great idea … tell your kids their haikus are GREAT!
April 6th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Very cool!! The kids write much better ‘kus than I do! hahaha