Work Done Well

Posted by J on Jun 1, 2013 in J Posts | 2 comments

While riding one of Japan’s bullet trains between Kyoto and Tokyo earlier this week … S and I employed a tried and true parenting/teaching tactic to get some substantive schoolwork done:

If you write four haiku poems about ANY experience so far in Japan, you can play on the iPad.

Their work was impressive and delightful … though we’ve only secured permission to share some of it if the authors identities remain anonymous.

So, here are three anonymous haikus … with two additional anonymous haikus thrown in:

 

Creepy alley way

Inside, there is light and warmth

Cozy, little home

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Subway exit stench

Fish market all deserted

Vendors cleaning up

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Wind gathers off sea

Blows by boats heavy with catch

Reaches market, me

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The atomic bomb

Destroyed Hiroshima town

Ended World War Two

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Creased and tearing map

Tangled, jumbled subway trains

Ditch for iPhone app