Global Haiku • June 2020
Dr. Randy Brooks

Discovery: A Booklet of Haiku

by
Delaney Manning

It’s always fun to discover something new. This booklet may help you discover more about yourself and haiku. There is no arrangement of a topic or a specific emotion that needs to be felt. I ask you to simply discover the hidden feelings you have behind each haiku. Allow your senses to look back on memories and possibly create new ones. I thank my college professor Randy Brooks for allowing me to grow personally from reading and writing haiku. The haiku you will be reading are some of my favorites from taking Brook's class. Now it's time to discover!

sled attached
to the golf cart
hang-on

crumbs
in the sheets
pizza box open

clay print
onto the porch
tiny hands

mother wakes
I crawl into bed
to snuggle

soldiers in a row
one without a gun
marching off

owlets nestled
tight under
another mom’s wing

creaky trampoline
sprinkler on
bubbles foam

scrapes on knees
bails of hay
mom making lemonade

ball bounces
off the roof
into the swimming pool

solid cedar wood
couch scratches
a cat’s blank stare

change clinks quietly
a tin can
barely heard

long white t-shirt
the smell of his cologne . . . all alone