Short and often focused on nature, haiku are an obvious source of poetry from daily life, former Missouri Poet Laureate Mayfrances Wagner writes.

This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Maryfrances Wagner, who lives in the Greater Kansas City Area. Maryfrances began writing poems as an eighth grader and today writes mainly ...

Discover the soul-stirring world of haiku poetry with 9 heartfelt poems that capture the essence of mindfulness. Explore 9 beautiful haiku poems offering gentle reminders of balance and serenity.

Slowly, I made 365 rough haiku, 365 one-sentence poems. Some days, suddenly, I had a burst of aliveness. Some days I had more poem in me – a letter to a friend, a bit of an essay.

Katya Sabaroff Taylor, author of "My Haiku Life" and "Prison Wisdom," believes we all have stories and poems inside of us waiting for expression. Email her at [email protected] . I want to tell ...

We are full of our life experiences, the wonderful and the difficult, full of the history of the decades we’ve lived as well.

While Japanese haiku is generally about nature, Indian haikuists are exploring themes of war, refugees and human suffering ...

Haiku is a centuries old Japanese poetry format composed of 17 syllables in three unrhymed lines with the first line of five syllables, seven in the second, and five in the third. The subject is often ...

Turns out haiku doesn’t need to have three lines—and other things you might learn on a tour of Japan’s historic poetry sites. A 17th-century feudal castle overlooks Matsuyama, Japan, the ...