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Global Haiku • Millikin University • July 2013


weekend at home
kids creeping in
snuggling bed

weekend at home
kids creep in
to snuggle

weekend at home
kids sneak in
to snuggle

Stacey Longfellow


meeting friends
wading creek
bucket full of crawdads

friends meeting in
wading creek
bucket full of crawdads

wading creek
catching crawdads
with friends

Stacey Longfellow

wading creek
with friends
bucket full of crawdads

wading creek
catching crawdads
with friends


Hot summer days
kids playing street games
mother watching

hot day
for street games
a mother's watchful eye

Sevie Jarrett

hot summer day
kids playing street games
mother watching

kids at play
mother's watchful eye
summer is here

beneath the shade tree
mother's watchful eye
street games


stormy night
six telling stories
flashlight on

stormy night
of stories
flashlight on

stormy night
of stories
flashlight grows dim

stormy night
telling stories
under the flashlight

flashlight lit
on a stormy night
stories brought to life

Kelsey Polk

storms telling stories flashlight on

stormy night
flashlight on
the storyteller's face

flashlight on
story telling
on a stormy night

Stormy night
Telling stories
with a flashlight on

stormy night
six around the fire
flahlight glare from the window


turning in my keys
the landlord inspects the house
no, that stain was always there

keys turned in
for house inspection
old stain

landlord inspects the house
that stain
was always there

handing in keys
that stain was always there
the super's eyes roll

landlord inspects the house
that stain
was always there

keys turned in
but the stain
still remains

Sean Ekiss


I drive by
my old house
with a new fence

my old house
new fence

Joren Martin

new fence
I drive by
my old house

my old house
new fence
I drive by

my old house
driving by
their new fence

my old house
their new fence
driving by . . .

sorrowed glance
the old house
my new fence

slowly drive by
my old house
with a new picket fence

a new fence
I drive by
my old house

the old house
drive by
new fence


rainbow created daydreams
limitless
astronauts, kings and queens

rainbow created dreams
astronaut, king and queen

eyes wide open
day dream creations
are limitless

gazing at the rainbow
limitless daydreams
astronauts, kings, queens

Charles Walker

 

 


young mother
coastal breeze 
waddling

coastal breeze
waddling
young mother

young mother
waddles
against coastal breeze

in the cool breeze
the expectant mother
waddles

Emily Green

a young mother
waddles
in a coastal breeze

young mother
waddles along
in the coastal breeze

a young mother
waddles
against the coastal breeze

a young mother
catches      a famiiar whiff
of the coastal breeze

the youthful woman
sways from side to side
down the coatal trail


 


a hard rain
a boy stirs oily rainbows
the sewer floods

rainy mix
oily rainbow
sewer flood

hard rain
sewer floods
boy stirs oily rainbow

the sewet floods
from a hard rain
a boy stirs oily rainbows

the sewer floods
from a hard rain
a boy stirs oily rainbows

after a hard rain
a boy stirs oilyy rainbows
in the gutter

Daniel Bradford

stirring oily rainbows
into the gutter
after a hard rain


warm summer breeze on my face
hammock
cool taste of beer

warm summer breeze
hammock
cool taste of beer

Wiliam Cato

warm breeze on my face
hammock and beer

summer breeze
sways the hammock
cold beer

a breeze sways
the hammock
cold beer

in the hammock
a warm summer breeze
ice cold beer

warm summer breeze
cool taste of beer
hammock sways

summer breeze
sways a hammock
Ice cold beer

humid wind
lightly sways the hammock
the thirst of beer


soft fresh sheets
warm press of her body
waken to the sun

press of her body
under soft sheets
waken to the sun

warmth of her body
on soft fresh sheets
sunlight shines in

warm press of her body
on soft fresh sheets
we awaken to the sun

Wiliam Cato

soft press of her body
in warm
morning sheets

 

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