PACE Global Haiku • PACE July 2016 |
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Haiku Friends by Have you always been interested in reading poetry and wished you could write as well as what you read? So was I, and this is my collection of haiku poetry. Poems don't always have to rhyme nor do they have to be long and stretched out. They can simply be short and to the point and still gain your attention. This collection was written in simple form just the way all haiku, in both Japanese and English language are written. Haiku have a transaction between reader and writer that brings simple understanding and relations due to the words left unwritten and unspoken. Most are nature based, but not all of them, and makes you appreciate the small things in life. Haiku are for you to explore your own imagination. I wrote this book because the simple, sweet and to the point between readers and writers is how Haiku became my favorite form of poetry. Reader's Introduction Hello, I am Katie, a friend of Darla's. Reading her book of haiku not only brought laughter, but reminded me to always remember the little things in life. The cat lady was by far my favorite because we all know far too well there is one in every neighborhood. I appreciate her nature based haiku, but even more so the personal twists of the haiku about people. I hated haiku in 5th grade and never looked back on them, but reading her book made me realize they are straight forward and to the point. Her one about the cry from the heart hit home at this moment with the things I'm personally going through, and it was just phenomenal to me as I have not seen this lady in about a month and her writing brought so much to surface that we ended up having lunch and a two hour visit. |
the old cat lady |
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loneliness: |
tiny grains of sand |
sand castles |
silent summer night |
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tiny footprints |
a field of hyssop |
new fallen snow |
moonlit night
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© 2016, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
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