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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Clever idea! Those are great haikus.
This is beautiful!
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!
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.
Those kids have such vivid imaginations, M. I love Mikey’s shooting fire. Hee hee. He’s a dragon.
Not only is that REALLY clever, they are VERY creative (like their Mom). Very cool.
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…
I love the imaginatioon of children. So very enlightening.
those are really good! very creative!
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,
These were wonderful, your kids are very creative. Thanks for sharing!
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!
I think you have some poets on your hands there!
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!
Love these. (Mickey’s is my favorite)
Have a good weekend!
I love when your kids do the haiku!
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 ;)
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). :)
thanks doll for the linky love! I am so impressed with the kids! Awesome! I posted about walt whitman today
xo amy
Yay! Benjamin, Olivia, and Mikey, I very much enjoyed your haikus. Thank you for sharing them with your mom’s readers. :)
Wow, Benjamin is IMPRESSIVE!!!!!
They turned out amazing.
That is so fantastic! Really great job. It totally made me nostalgic to have little kids again though.
These are terrific – kids are so smart! And teachers are too!
What a great idea … tell your kids their haikus are GREAT!
Very cool!! The kids write much better ‘kus than I do! hahaha