Global Haiku • Fall 2024
Dr. Randy Brooks

The Great Heist

by
Dayton Lasack

When I read haiku, I find myself enjoying two distinct styles: (1) haiku that paints an elegant picture while describing the beauty of nature and (2) haiku that does not take itself too seriously. Within this selection of haiku I try to showcase a number of poems that I feel fit this criteria, along with other, more traditionally serious haiku.

The title “The Great Heist” relates to a haiku within the selection. While the title may have a serious tone, after reading that haiku, the reader may find that the haiku is not to be taken nearly as serious it may have originally seemed. I hope that many of the haiku in this selection have the that same effect on the reader.

I would like to give special thanks to Dr. Randy Brooks for making all of this possible and allowing me to grow in the art of haiku.

jogging across a brook
the rowdy stream
cheers me on

California breeze
the pines whisper
back and forth

graffittied wall
the art
of peer pressure

red picnic baskest
the raccoon
plans a great heist

conversation
the raspberry bush
eavesdrops again

6 am practive
     the birds ecstatic
my breakfast, now theirs

door cracked open
wind whistling
no one inside

the commons couch
offers refuge
another sleeping student

sunny day
I go back inside
to grab my jacket

school spirit
the ducks return
to the pond

3 generations
return to
the old farmhouse