Global Haiku • Fall 2017
Dr. Randy Brooks

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reader response essay:
Take a Deep Breath: The Haiku Way to Inner Peace

renku:
Celebration
by
Alex Herrera
Mackenzie Martin
Maddy Delano
Morgan Better
Megan Batty

 

 

Looking for Rapture

by
Mackenzie Martin

As this fall semester ends, I realize just how much haiku have come to mean to me. They allow me to put my emotions into words; and furthermore, they are an outlet of relaxation. I have named my collection “Looking for Rapture,” because my favorite haiku are often a culmination of an ideal place or moment in time that I wish to be in. These situations may not evoke any emotion in others, but to me, they induce such quiet joy that I am inclined to call it rapture. Some of my favorite things made their way in to my favorite haiku, such as travel, literary references, tennis, my sister, and as clearly indicated by my signature haiku, eyewear. Why these haiku are only brief snapshots of my mind, they are representative of my life and thoughts.

 

 

 


long tennis match
I glance over
and see my dad's grin


feet up on his dash
my eyes flutter open
to his smile


back to the future
familiar faces
in my new hometown


stolen shirts
bad music in her car
giggling with my sister


midnight . . .
rolling cookies
clever ideas unfold


breathtakingly beautiful
in every way
crooked nose


clear blue eyes
hide behind large black frames
quite the spectacle

 


existential crisis
as I sit on the rusty swings
squeaking back and forth


real-life African safari
the giraffe hears
the screech of the taxi


standing on her tiptoers
        can't see over
                the mountains


holding hands
our love soars
beneath the Tower


Jesus’s arms outstretched
to the beat of the drums
she hugs him


© 2017, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
All rights returned to authors upon publication.