Poetry for the day

The season is spring
I just saw my new baby
He wiggles a lot!

My friend Jenny challenged me to write a Haiku on her blog today here is mine telling you about my day. We got to have another ultrasound today. The baby looks so perfect. We got some really good profile pictures and saw his wide big feet that he keeps kicking me with. He really is a mover, I love feeling the baby inside though. One of our teens, Harmony watched the boys for us, so that made it nice for just me and Mike to have some time together. The baby's heartbeat was at 160 and she thought by the ultrasound the baby is a healthy 1.7 lbs at this point. I can't believe we are almost down to 100 days till the baby arrives.


I'll pass the challenge on..here are the rules and background of writing a Haiku of your own. If you can count syllables, you can write a haiku. This is one of the easiest types of poetry to learn to write. It doesn't rhyme, and it isn't supposed to have a title. The hard part is deciding which words to use!
The modern haiku was fashioned by a Japanese poet named Masaoka Shiki in the late 1800's. He created this new form of poetry to present realistic portrayals of nature and life. Tradition insists that a clue to the season be included. This poem is made up of three lines only. There are only 17 syllables altogether. The pattern of syllables goes like this:
five syllables
seven syllables
five syllables
The tricky part is to find a way to express yourself using few words. Seventeen syllables don't allow room for lots of details or unnecessary words. Put yours in my comment box so I can have insight on your season of life :)