<p>Haiku in Japanese has three lines written one right after another, with 17 syllables – the first line contains five syllables, the second has seven, and the last has five. In English the ideas can be expressed with a short line, a long line, and another short line.</p>
<p>Write a Haiku that expresses your thoughts on the college application process, the SAT, kids leaving home for college or just raising teenagers.</p>
<p>The date looms closer
Have we done everything right?
College time is here.</p>
<p>Who is this stranger
Always in his room door closed
Used to be so cute.</p>
<p>S.A.T prep class
Spent thousands for him to take
Was it waste of time?</p>
<p>College counselor
Do you even know my kid?
Please return my call.</p>
<p>The decisions loom
Will he get in to first choice
Maybe a gap year???</p>
<p>What – her kid got in?
But mine is so much smarter!
The whole thing is fixed!</p>
<p>2007 in a nutshell (or two nutshells)</p>
<p>Deferred in the fall
Will he get in anywhere?
Good news in April.</p>
<p>April brings choices.
Harvard? Carnegie Mellon?
CMU of course.</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale or Penn?
We are praying for State U
Woe the B student.</p>
<p>It will be okay
He’s a bright, kind, and great kid
Mom needs a xanax.</p>
<p>rt, you have a knack for this!</p>
<p>As he bubbles in
His stomach growls hungrily
SATs are long.</p>
<p>App not yet processed?
Recommendations are lost.
Must send them again.</p>
<p>Got in but can’t pay
Yay for merit scholarships
From choice number 2.</p>
<p>Three kids in college
Mom and dad have no money
We must be nutty</p>
<p>B in AP Calc.
Can you use the Common App
For McDonald’s job?</p>
<p>One time I drove through
North Dakota, so I am
Clearly URM</p>
<p>she is so happy
new school, new friends, a new life
which place is home now?</p>
<p>One more month to go
Bank account is so small now
Freshman year is paid!</p>
<p>Your daily paper
Harbinger in black and white
I crave your comics</p>
<p>– Pierce from “Zits”</p>
<p>One and Two, all set.
Thank God we have ten more years
Before it’s Three’s turn!</p>
<p>Your nests are empty.
Mine’s still full of Lunchables*,
playdates and carpools.</p>
<p>*I hate them, but they’re like the Tamagotchis of my first-grader’s school. I have to cave now and then.</p>
<p>High school: a tunnel
Winds up a gentle hillside,
Leads to a new place.</p>
<p>Freshman year was so
Carefree, blissful, ignorant
Before SAT’s.</p>
<p>Do I measure up?
Teenagers hope and wonder,
posting “Chance Me” threads.</p>
<p>ECs and essays,
Application deadline nears.
Mom, just let me sleep!</p>
<p>April approaches.
College Confidential is
both stress and release.</p>
<p>Early Decision.
Accepted! But can’t relax:
Midyear reports due.</p>
<p>Packing and moving…
Senior year, where have you gone?
Flown my empty nest.</p>
<p>rt – great thread topic! :D</p>