Global Haiku • Fall 2016
Dr. Randy Brooks

Let Them Grow

by
Renee Sample

This is a collection of my personal favorites and the class favorites that I wrote this semester in Global Haiku. In my haiku I focus on the small parts of a larger picture, picking up on details that would otherwise go unnoticed. Through this course I have developed my writing by being more descriptive with less words. Writing haiku has taught me to look deeper into the meaning of small parts of everyday life.

Renee Sample is a sophomore nursing major at Millikin University. On campus, she is involved in Delta Delta Delta, Student Honors Advisory Council, University Center Board, and is a First Year Experience Mentor. In her haiku, she tends to focus on small parts of a larger picture. Through the Global Haiku course, she developed her writing to be descriptive of these small scenes in the least amount of words.

weeds sprouting
purples and blues
let them grow

her eyes close
for just one minute
           three hours later

hurricane path
ripped-out trees
the sunrise now visible

the steady dripping
of the faucet
keep moving forward

the calm of the storm
bringing out
the children at play