Haiku Kazu: Kazoo School’s community art and poetry project

This haiku project sprung from the desire to bring the Kazoo School community together to create and share creative writing, art, and our experiences of nature and our surroundings. Kim Shaw, Kazoo School’s art teacher and Dr. Melanie Crow, Kazoo’s middle school Humanities teacher, began this project fairly soon after schools closed in anticipation of the spread of COVID-19 , and it became a special way to connect at a strange time. During the month of April, National Poetry Month, we (gratefully) received submissions from students and from the Kazoo community. We appreciate all the wonderful work submitted and posted here and hope you enjoy it and are able to see the living, vibrant worlds of our wonderful community. 

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Haiku by Amanda, middle school

Breeze comes through
Smell of salt comes through the air 
Its waves crash through me

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Trees sway in the wind
Rain pattering on the roof
Cold air coming through

Haiku and art by Odessa, middle school

Waves of rich red clouds
Surging over inky mountains.
Break. The blue sky again.

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Gray woods lit by nothing.
Colorless sky accompanied by nothing.
Woosh! The vivid red of a cardinal.

Haiku and art by Griffin, primary

Nothing eats nothing
Nothing doesn’t eat nothing
Nothing is nothing

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Haiku and art by Elizabeth, community member

Repurposed stripes and
polka dots, fragile, whisper-
thin integument.

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Day dawns grey, clouds loom,
as we, encased in blankets,
read of far-flung lands.

Haiku and art by Henry, elementary

Snowfall in April
Makes me so mad I want to
Scream, yell, and throw things

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My neighbor’s garage
Is tilting over a lot
It makes me so mad.

Haiku and art by Milo Kreider, primary

I saw a raccoon.
It was climbing all alone.
It went into the woods.

Haiku and art by Nadia, primary

I see a jaguar.
It’s pouncing out of a bush.
Pouncing on its mom.

Haiku and art by Aidan, middle school

Warm and rainy day
Woods give way to modern world
Lost between the two

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What happened to her
Holly’s in the shadow realm
More candy for me

Haiku by Lora, primary

I see blue flowers.
Blue flowers are in the grass.
I gave them to mom.

Haiku and art by Brynn, community member and board member

In this pandemic
We search the woods for beavers
Only to find skulls

Haiku and art by Gabriel, middle school

While holding my breath
iridescent schools charge by
Gasping, not for breath

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Twisty and curvy
Endlessly freefalling down
Craving more horror

Haiku and art by Hjordis, faculty member

A secluded walk
beneath magnificent pines
spring in the forest.

Haiku and art by Magnus, primary

I saw a robin.
It was by my bird feeder.
It looked for worms too.

Haiku and art by Kalan Ashby-Wade, middle school

The air is warm out
It is amazing to bike
This haiku is done

Haiku by Gina, art by Raidan; community members

last years fallen oak
we parade along its length
boy, dog, mother, joy

Haiku and art by Hailey, middle school

Shining light outside,
Birds chirp in peaceful silence
Spring comes fast this year.

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Walking on the street,
Dirt on my shoes; beautiful trees
A car zooms passed, flying.

Haiku and art by Matilda, primary

Cardinals in the woods.
The cardinals chase each other.
I hear their sweet calls.

Haiku by Melanie, art by Kim; faculty members

Feel that? It is us
Seeing us seeing us bloom
Into sky, branch, us.

Haiku and art by Zion, middle school

You expect so much
But then you find out … nothing
A disappointment

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When I first thought about this
I sat there like what is this
Thought it was a breeze