Global Haiku • January 2016
Dr. Randy Brooks

Grandma's Chocolate Chips

by
Uriah Walker

Haiku is an interesting style of poetry. Many people think of it as a strict structural style of writing. This is so wrong. It is one of the most freely, open ended forms of poetry. It is intense because it strikes so many emotions, images, and senses with very few words. Haiku should be written from the heart. The writer should be passionate about the subject in which they re writing. When the writer is passionate, it is conveyed to the reader even better. Each reader should be open when reading haiku. Read each one, slowly and carefully. Allow each poem to take you that place. Be totally consumed in the words, that it is like living instead of reading.

friends gather around the grave
her mother
a breeze

grab everything
mine, mine, mine
card declined

squirming
out of the jar . . .
I’m hooked

after the sorrow
in the garden
I feel your hands

swinging legs
over a saddle
Giddyup

sprint down the track
I left my heart
at the start line

comb your hair and fix your dress
STOP THAT
you are a young lady

Grandma’s chocolate chips
I get to lick
the spoon

wined and dined
all he wanted was
sex

curls and press
rods and ties
sometimes beauty is on the outside

matching
hats, plates, napkins
another year older

placing my graduation cap
on the child’s head
your next

winter nights
just as I warm up
you sneak back in