Global Haiku • Fall 2014 |
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• essay: • kasen: • Allie Wilson is a BFA Theatrical Design and Production Major. She loves using her imagination and hopes to get paid one day for simply dreaming up fun ideas. In her spare time she loves to read, novels more so than plays. She also is very close to her family and they also inspire a lot of her writing. Overall, Allie loves to be creative and so she is excited to share some of her favorite haiku she has written this semester. |
Wishes and Reality by Introduction I am a dreamer at heart and I go to Walt Disney World A LOT so most of this haiku was inspired by those experiences. However, there is not always happiness and sunshine and dreamers with their wishes and fantasy. My haiku collection explores what I long for, what could happen or be, and also what actually is realistic and happening in the world. I hope you enjoy these haiku as much as I have enjoyed writing them. ~Allie Reader's Introduction As I read Allie Wilson's haiku, I noticed a unique quality. Even though her haiku vary in feeling from dark to wishful, they all have a common aspect. She takes common everyday things and translates them to elegant haiku. Each haiku points at an aspect of human lives that everyone has encountered. Be it the scary movies that you watch with your friends to that love in your life. I think that it is this aspect of her haiku that make them so unique. It makes reading haiku so much more enjoyable when you understand where the author is coming from. My two favorite talk about love, or at least that is my interpretation of them, the first:
This haiku is one of my favorites because it can be both happy and sad. At first I took it as a sad thing, lovers that have to part and never hope to see each other again, but there's also the possibility that they are parting only for a short time which makes it happier. This transitions well to my second favorite:
This one seems like it can be taken with the first because if they were forced apart, you would want to do everything that you could to block out those memories. It is this unity that makes her poems enjoyable. They are not just a bunch of poems that were written at different times. They tell a kind of story. Overall Allie Wilson's haiku are a unique take on the realities of life that every person faces. ~Abigail Greider |
a house on a hill |
bright lights |
red couch |
grumpy cat |
the shining |
marshmallow all over |
small bonfire |
family outing |
blue skies |
make a wish |
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