BBC - Skillswise - Your stories - october 2003

'Time' - a haiku poem
By Helen Jordan

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Backward went the clock,
Tick-tock. Time went backwards fast.
I was young again.

Helen is studying Key Skills at the Shirebrook Carterlane Centre in Nottinghamshire. She enjoys creative writing.

	A haiku is an ancient Japanese art form. The idea is to get the most impact from the fewest words. There are 3 lines to a haiku. They don't rhyme but add up to 17 syllables (a way of breaking a word up into parts). For more information on haikus look at the BBC Blast website. You can practise syllables on Skillswise.
	How many types of poem do you know?

	Other stories in the October 2003 edition:
	Dyslexia and my son, Alfie Enjoying college A homeless old woman Francesca Donati

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