{"id":69020,"date":"2023-04-17T14:32:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T21:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=69020"},"modified":"2023-04-17T14:32:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T21:32:59","slug":"haiku-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/haiku-day-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is the day\/International Haiku\/Poetry Day\u2014woot!"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 17 is International Haiku Poetry Day. According to The Haiku Foundation<\/a>, the haiku is an ancient and undefinable-in-English form of Japanese poetry. At its most basic, it is three lines, the first with five syllables, the second with seven and the third with five.<\/p>\n

The NAU Review<\/i> asked Lumberjacks to submit their own haiku about NAU, Flagstaff or Arizona. Enjoy the poets among us!<\/p>\n

\n

Alison Singer<\/strong>, assistant professor of practice, biological sciences<\/p>\n

sharp whiteness, striving
\nupward always, breaking blue
\nsky. at night, stars fall.<\/p>\n

Dr Bev<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mollusk to mountain
\ncomet to dinosaur bone
\nyet humans persist<\/p>\n

Lisa Dahm<\/strong>, marketing and communications coordinator, CHER<\/p>\n

Majestic mountains
\nAspens gently quivering
\nFlagstaff is beauty<\/p>\n

T Noecker<\/strong>, director of strategic planning and institutional analytics, SPIRA<\/p>\n

dark and ominous
\nmonsoon storm brings rain and life
\ngreen emerges (add one more syllable?)<\/p>\n

Tammy Cornell<\/strong>, assistant director, marketing<\/p>\n

Atop mountain peaks,
\nNAU Flagstaff stands tall, proud,
\nKnowledge echoes clear.<\/p>\n

Mary McGee<\/strong>, assistant director, alumni communications<\/p>\n

Red rocks of Old Main
\nGreen grass, blue skies in North Quad
\nTrue Blue and gold pride<\/p>\n

Jessica Minster<\/strong>, student majoring in English<\/p>\n

Throne of white splendor
\nOverlook tall trees of green
\nJoy spirit within<\/p>\n

Zachary Gerber<\/strong>, applications programmer, ITS; physics alum<\/p>\n

Farewell to the pines,
\nNAU forever shines,
\nin my memory.<\/p>\n

Jessie K. Finch<\/strong>, chair of the Department of Sociology<\/p>\n

Sociology
\nTo Make A Better Culture
\nTake SOC 101<\/p>\n

Tessa Alexander<\/strong>, academic program coordinator, Department of Educational Psychology<\/p>\n

Peaks standing so tall
\nWinter, Spring, Summer, or Fall
\nFlagstaff’s beautiful<\/p>\n

Rob Wallace<\/strong>, associate teaching professor, Honors College<\/p>\n

Cone of clouds over
\nSacred Mountain, bearing spring–
\nSun is almost here!<\/p>\n

Andrew Patrick<\/strong>, student in mathematics and mathematics education<\/p>\n

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Leaves drift in air’s flow,
\nscattered by April’s strong gusts.
\nAutumn winds and leaves.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 17 is International Haiku Poetry Day. According to The Haiku Foundation, the haiku is an ancient and undefinable-in-English form of Japanese poetry. At its most basic, it is three lines, the first with five syllables, the second with seven and the third with five. The NAU Review asked Lumberjacks to submit their own haiku…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":69033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}