Akita International Haiku Network

Let haiku be on the UNESCO list!

Here is a letter of support of the campaign from Ms.  Jasna Popović Poje, Croatia.

We sincerely wish to appreciate and share it with each other.

Haiku for children, a teacher’s story

My name is Jasna Popović Poje, I’m a teacher at Primary school in the town of Novska, Croatia.  As a little girl I started to write poems on Nature, and even today, I have these first verses.  From early childhood till today, I preferred short form poetry, and today, as a writer for children, I have a large number of haiku and haibun published, as well. 

My collections of haiku poetry are about schoolchildren: the first book is about the first graders (“Zubić u jabuci”/A tooth in an Apple) and the second book is about my pupils in fourth grade (“Muha u četvrtom A”/A Fly in the Class 4b).  Besides being attached to my students and their life in school, they are also, my main theme and inspiration. 

In the school, I hold a successful literature workshop where we learn how to write haiku, his history and characteristics, what’s important…  We take walks in Nature, draw and write and so we make our haigas, which children create with a great enthusiasm.

Haiku is part of my life and of my pupils’ childhood.

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Zovem se Jasna Popović Poje i učiteljica sam Osnovne škole u Novskoj. Već kao djevojčica napisala sam svoje prve uratke o prirodi i dandanas čuvam te stihove. Uvijek sam naginjala  kratkoj lirskoj formi te danas kao književnica za djecu imam najviše haiku i haibun uradaka, a zanimljivost moga bavljenja pisanjem daju zbirke haiku stihova o mojim učenicima. Objavljena su  takve dvije zbirke-haiku dnevnik o prvašima”Zubić u jabuci” i haiku dnevnik o četvrtašima “Muha u četvrtom A”.Osim što sam u stvaranju vezana za moje učenike i njihov život u školi,, oni su mi glavna tema i nadahnuće, vodim i literarnu-haiku skupinu i radionicu na kojoj učimo kako se piše haiku,koje su mu karakteristike, na što treba obratiti pažnju.Odlazimo u prirodu, crtamo i pišemo pa tako nastaju i naše haige za koje smo dobili priznanja. U časopisu Diogen,izašlo je čak 13 naših haigi na temu  KONJ,a pojedinačno je na natječaju u Kloštar Ivaniću nekoliko učanika dobilo nagrade i pohvale te su im se haiku stihovi o konjima našli i u kloštarskom Zborniku.Djeca jako vole haige jer su im bliske i kreativne,izražavaju se slikarskom tehnikama koje vole,a li i pjesničkim slikama koje oblikuju u haiku te se tako dobije skladan spoj slike i teksta.

Haiku je dio mog života i djetinjstva mojih učenika.

Kao u pošti…                                                              Like in post office…

Klupe pune pisama –                                               Benches full of the letters –

LAPONIJA!                                                                 LAPONIA!          

Zvrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!                                                    Zvrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Na prozorima škole                                                     On the school’s windows

ostalo samo – Sunce!                                                  remains the Sun only!

Projektno platno                                                          Project canvas

spremno za film –                                                       ready for a movie –

i muha se smirila.                                                       even the fly subsided.