EN340 / IN350 Global Haiku Tradition
Dr. Randy Brooks
Millikin University PACE Summer 2004
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Annie Clay

Lifetime
Selected Haiku
by

Annie Clay

Haiku “deals entirely with the here-and now, with nature, with intuition arising from immediate sense-experience, with the ordinary sights and sounds of this world.” — Eric Amann, Cicada Voices

"A good haiku offers just enough words, just the right words, to recreate the essence of a specific time and place and hold it permanently available." — Peggy Lyles, To Hear the Rain

These styles of haiku are images that I related to past and present memories of my life. The ability to recall such images of the past/present required created thinking. By recollecting what we see, feel, taste, smell, or hear, we work with the imagination. In my collection, you feel the first light of a summer day. On a passion night, you see dazzling lights. I hope that this collection "Lifetime” will affect you with the memories, and feeling which are reflected through my world of haiku.


face up
five wooden blades twirl
a sigh


on the wall of
the old school building
     Luke
         &
        Laura
            Forever


May-love-honor
I do! I do!
two rings on a finger

 

 

flashing red lights
slowly-my car
awaits a green light


hand squeeze hard
prices rising
whoop! Gas

 

 

ribs
blazing colors sparkle
through the night


Serenity

minutes later
a child whimpers
with joy

hot sun
warm water

movement slow
two cart wheels
on sand

legs-arms flying high
my serve

a swim
around the pool
saturday evening

family getaway
and you loved it

Annie Clay

 

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