Dear LPG  

I have always wanted to be able to write poetry, and while I know that it does not have to rhyme or make sense to anyone else to be a good poem, perhaps the secret to writing something vaguely profound has escaped me so far.   

Many a really ‘good’ poem has been written and I asked AI what poems are considered among the best.  The answer given included The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats, and "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot. 

All the poets mentioned, and many others I can mention were obviously endowed with a God-given talent that some of us will never have and AI was kind enough only to mention epic writings which were written in English when I asked.   

All this came to mind when I worked out that April 17th is National Haiku Poetry Day.  What is that you might ask.  Well this is a form of Japanese poetry and the internet explains that ‘A haiku has three lines with a specific syllable count: 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third’  

Three lines of descriptive poetry that doesn’t even have to rhyme? 

I decided to have a go with Japan being my starting point… 


Wood, bricks, sand, glass, mud 
Or a house of paper walls 
Delicate living…? 

What do you think?  

SD, Deptford. 

 

SD offers some internet information…

 

 

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…and LPG adds some information on today’s celebration…

 

 

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