Haiku in English 2 🍂✍️ [982]
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Haiku poems communicate a lot of ideas, thoughts and feelings into just a few simple words. They can be moving, humourous or meditative, and reading haiku in English allows you to learn vocabulary in a very interesting way. In part 1 I talked about the form and history of haiku, and read out various short poems in English from both Japanese writers and modern English ones. In part 2 here I finish reading my haiku selection, including many written by English-language haiku master John Stevenson. Listen to each one, consider the different meanings and interpretations and also learn specific words and phrases to expand your English vocabulary.
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| 0:32.7 | Hello listeners, welcome back to Luke's English podcast. This episode is called Haiku in English |
| 0:40.9 | 2 and it's the continuation of an episode I started in February this year, which that episode was |
| 0:48.3 | called Haiku in English. Very imaginative stuff. Yeah, so I did part one of this in February and I had to abandon the |
| 0:57.2 | first part of this because if you remember, there was the noise of drilling and hammering from next door, |
| 1:03.3 | which has been very annoying recently. They've been replacing all the windows in the rooms |
| 1:08.9 | next to mine here on the top floor of this building. |
| 1:12.8 | And it's been very annoying. I've had to cancel several episode recordings. |
| 1:17.1 | Hopefully they won't be doing it today. But that's what caused me to abandon part one of this. |
| 1:23.4 | But now the sounds of silence have returned, offering me space to come back to this zen-like topic, |
| 1:30.6 | which does demand a certain amount of peace and quiet. |
| 1:34.1 | So let's continue then and finish off the haiku in English episode that I started a few months ago, |
| 1:40.3 | a couple of months ago. |
| 1:41.8 | Several things to say at the start here. |
| 1:45.7 | The first thing is I wanted to give you a reminder of what I said in part one, what haiku is, some of the things I read, and what the aim of |
| 1:51.5 | the episode is. Okay, so yeah, the whole point of this episode is that it was a chance to explore |
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