Seventh and eighth grade students are participating in the JAL International Haiku Poetry Competition. The theme for this year's contest is "Festivals." After brainstorming ideas, students came up with many different festivals in Hawaii and around the world. Several suggestions included the Merry Monarch Festival, The Festival of Lights, The Lantern Festival, the State Fair, Mardi Gras, the Day of the Dead, and several others that we were not so sure about! If you have a festival idea, please share it with us so we can write about it. Here are a few haiku poems from the grade 7 class.
Lanterns
Hundreds of lanterns
Drifting across the night sky
Turning into stars
by AF
New Years
The moon stares down
Watching the bright sparklers shine
Enjoying the lights
by TE
Day of the Dead (A Spanish Halloween)
The ancestors come
We revel in their wisdom
Their graves smoke and steam
by IC
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