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Responding to Your Community Through HaikuWhy Haiku?;) Photo © James Sondrow Writing a haiku provides a way for us to share experiences. It is a way for people to take everyday moments and feelings and turn them into an image made out of words. A good haiku allows us to recognize the fleeting beauty of life - to actually feel beauty - simply through the words of the poem itself. The act of reading a good haiku might trigger a feeling of recognition, an insight, an epiphany. Noted poetry teacher William J. Higginson sums up the reason for writing haiku wonderfully in the following quote: It is hard to tell you how I am feeling. Perhaps, if I share with you the event that made me aware of these feelings, you will have similar feelings of your own.1 A haiku is a distillation of the briefest of happenings, a snapshot of the universe. The best examples of the form are perfectly incomplete renderings of the world and of what it is like to be human.
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