Until this lesson I have never heard of a haiku poem, and even when learning about it, didn’t understand the idea behind the structure and content within different haiku poems. After researching them I found that they are actually beautiful and give people an opportunity to express their feelings towards their surroundings, environment or just general emotion through poetry. The 5 – 7 -5 structure is also a nice way of doing it because it allows freedom and flexibility as it doesn’t necessarily have to rhyme, just fit within the syllables.

My favourite poem however are acrostic poems, mainly because they remind me of childhood. These were my classes favourite poems to do back in early primary school and since then they have had the ability to remind me of how much fun and care free school activities were back then. Our imagination as children was incredible, I definitely know that personally I had a pretty wild, crazy and creative imagination and ideas.

When I think upon these times it makes me happy, warm inside and a bit sad as I wish we could go back to it.

Example of Acrostic poem found on the internet. Source: https://www.youngwriters.co.uk/images/layout/text/example-acrostic-1.png, accessed 19/3/16