The last tip of the course

Thank you for this exciting course.

More haikus! (now E1C´s turn)

Winter is tonight

lots of birds migrating north,

how pretty the sky!

(by Sofia B.)

Water falling down,
Butterflies flying a round,
I have no doubts, spring.
(by Ángela C.)

And now, some "What I am" haikus. What do they describe?

I´m a short poem,

and I was born in Japan

What poem can I be?

If you say my name,

I won´t exist anymore,

Now think who am I?

(by Alejandro Z.)

I´m round like a ball

I have water and land inside

And there are lots like me.

(By Silvia de la T.)

I want to go away!

I say all the time "why?", "why?"

I´m still complaining.

(By Lucía F.)

False words you gave me

True feelings I catch with your lies

Now sad are my tears.

(By Rubén B.)

If you see me now,

You should remember your past

D'you know what I am?

(By Pedro G.)

Solutions: a haiku, silence, a planet, Mourinho, love, a photograph. 

Great work!!

"What am I?" haiku

These haiku are riddles, they were written by E1A students. Can you guess what they describe?

You use me to write

I have different colours

Should I get dry now?

(by Ángeles A.)

I fly near the sea

Looking at the world below

The children love me

I am a good team

My enemy is Barça

Of which team I am?

In mountains I live

I throw snowflakes to the ground

Children go to ski

(by Silvia G.)

I soon will be here

You won´t see me but feel me

Loved by everyone

I go before sleep

I will appear in the morning

I´m one in the sky 

Someone can break me

Not with a pair of scissors

It can be with words

(by Inés A.)

Solutions: a pen, a bird, Real Madrid, winter, summer, the sun, self-esteem.

And finally a very metaphysical haiku by Ángela A.:

We are born to live

We grow up to experience

Why does death exist? 

Haiku examples (E1A)

Remember how to make a haiku: 3 lines, with 5 syllables the first, 7 the second and 5 the last. They don´t have to rhyme. It can´t be easier! Some reference to nature is typical in these poems. Here you are some examples:

The birds are flying
Above sea and white mountains
I want to be free 

Students like rainbows
generously cross our path
dissolving in warmth

Falling to the ground,

        I watch a leaf settle down

In a bed of brown.

 Snow falling slowly
Blanketing the trees and road
Silence and beauty.

Alone, on the web,
drops of sensitivity
embrace an eyelash 

And these are some haikus my students last year (now in E2ºC) wrote:

Forests have been cut
by the anger of chain saws
to take from them wood

("Deforestation", by Laura G. and Alejandro G.)

If you are alone
happiness is always there

to give you colour 

("Alone with Happiness", by Marta Z. and Steveen T.)

Sunset finds a voice
of a strange boy with a rose
for his beauty lost

("Love" by Alicia M. and Concha L.)

You are suffering
the death takes your life away
and the silence cries

("Dust in the Vault" by Esther L. and Marina L.)