I set my Year 8 class a writing task today, 10 Things I Know to be True, or 10 Things I Should Know By Now (taken from Sarah Kay’s TED talk – it’s brilliant. Go watch it).
One of my students wrote, “I know ‘antidisestablishmentarianism’ is the longest word I know.”
We joked it was almost a haiku in itself. So I thought I’d make one. I know it’s not a correct or proper haiku but it’s a fun form to play with.
An-ti-dis-es-tab-
lish-ment-ar-i-an-ism
Longest word I know
What creative act have you done today?
A Fullness in Brevity - Adam Byatt 
I wrote a dystopian future that is nearly here.
I love Sarah Kay! My kids love slam poetry, and we watched her TED talk. Another one of my favorite slams is Taylor Mali’s “Undivided Attention”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1MHVqAWGmI
That’s a great poem. I hope to get out to an open mic and do some performance poetry.
I have dabbled with creating haiku, write my thoughts as micropoetry, but had no clue, the latter, was a form of Japanese writing…nice 🙂