Beautiful words fly Filling the festival air Mobile Haiku fun Welcome to www.brightonhaiku.com Read and write, send and receive beautiful Japanese poems as part of Brighton Festival

Haiku are ancient Japanese poems that always have seventeen syllables.
The writer tries to capture a moment as simply as possible, summing up their emotion as part of the description.

Local schoolchildren have been taught how to 
write them as part of Brighton Festival 2001.
You may have seen them on the sides of buses around Brighton and Hove - 
and now you can enjoy them through this web site.

Read Haiku here on the site. There are also whizzy Flash versions of the Haiku that appear on the buses around Brighton and Hove. Click here

Have Haiku sent to you as a text message on your mobile phone. Click here

Learn how to write your own Haiku and submit them to be included on this site. Click here