#12

I am really not a fan of haiku's personally. I have a hard time writing them, because hard to put a definite meaning in three short sentences. A haiku must paint a mental image in the reader's mind. It is real hard to put meaning and imagery in the lines. At times, I have trouble coming with images in poems that may come so easy to others. However, in the packet we read for this week there was one particular haiku that really threw me out but many of my classmates seemed to like it?
Etheridge Knight

Making jazz swing in
Seventeen syallabes AIN'T
No square poet's job

I was like am I missing something or what? cause that theme just went straight over my head. I think when we discussed it in class it made more sense to me. Normally, an haiku includes themes like nature, feelings, or experiences. This haiku didnt fit that description at all, I was expecting something to that nature.