The Big Field Trip

Our family has been pretty busy over the past several weeks. Angela, Cyrus, and Bella have been taking guitar lessons. Cyrus and Bella have been taking music and voice lessons. Cruz has been taking a rhythm and movement class. Cyrus and Jason are taking cooking classes.

Cyrus, Bella, and Jason are teaching English to two 6^th grade classes at a school in the country, and Angela and Jason are teaching an English class to a group of 12 adults in the neighboring town of Inca Baths.

In addition to all of this we are still taking treks and excursions around town and into the countryside. We are also very busy with homeschooling and work.

Cyrus and Bella are exploring poetry during school time. They have been using the people and landscapes of Northern Peru as inspiration for writing their own poetry. I thought I would post some of their Haiku poems along with pictures of the things that inspired them. Haiku poems are an ancient style of verse from Japan. They are traditionally written in three lines with 5 syllables on the first line, 7 syllables on the second, and 5 syllables on the third line. They capture a moment in time, and often show contrasting images. Scenes from nature are often the focus of Haiku poetry.

Green grass all around

Sitting criss-cross with a lamb

A girl dressed in blue

Isabella Kirkman, November, 2008

From the big field trip

We run down rocks very fast

In the rock’s shadow

 

 

From the big field trip

Forests of towering rocks

Above winding trail

Cyrus Kirkman, November, 2008

 

 

 

From the big field trip

Cyrus Kirkman, November, 2008

 

 

 

We invite you to respond with some Haiku poetry of your own.

Bella says, “Please write 1 or 2 Haiku poems.” She also wants you to know that “you don’t need to use exact sentences”.

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