Haiku in English 📖 🍃 [974]
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 108 minutes
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[974] In this episode I read out lots of haiku poems, explain their meaning, discuss what they make me think and feel, and use them to teach you some vocabulary. The haikus I read include some traditional Japanese ones translated into English, plus more modern ones written in English by writers from around the world. Some of these haikus are meditative, some are sad, some are funny and some find a way to capture feelings that are otherwise difficult to put into words.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit |
| 0:07.7 | teacher luke.com.com.com. |
| 0:15.9 | Hello, listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. How are you doing today? I hope you're doing |
| 0:19.9 | fine and that you are glad to be listening to another episode of my podcast for learners of English all around the world. This episode, as usual, has a PDF. The PDF is basically all the notes that I've prepared for the episode, which I will be reading from during the episode. You can find the PDF. It's free for you to |
| 0:40.9 | download. Just check the episode description. You'll see a link. That's how you get the PDF. You can read with |
| 0:47.1 | me if you like, or you can maybe just check the PDF later, which would be a good idea. That's probably a |
| 0:52.7 | good idea. If you want my advice for how to use |
| 0:55.4 | the PDFs, listen to the episode first, and then check out the PDF, read through it yourself, |
| 1:01.0 | and you could identify words or phrases that perhaps you heard during the episode that you |
| 1:07.0 | want to record, or at least, you know, check the spelling for and things like that. |
| 1:12.7 | So the PDF is there for you if you want to get it. |
| 1:15.2 | Link in the description. |
| 1:16.7 | In fact, I'm going to start reading from the PDF. |
| 1:19.7 | Right now, here we go. |
| 1:21.9 | Hello, listeners. |
| 1:23.7 | This episode is all about haiku in English. |
| 1:27.6 | Just in case you don't know, haiku is a form of short poem which originated in Japan. |
| 1:35.1 | During this episode, I'm going to read lots of haiku to you in English, of course. |
| 1:40.5 | Each haiku packs in a lot of meaning, imagery and feelings into just a few words. |
| 1:48.5 | Each one is like a little story describing a moment in time. |
| 1:52.6 | Each one is a kind of short meditation which encourages you to stop and think for a moment. |
| 1:58.7 | And in fact, you could consider each one of these to be a quick |
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