Global Haiku • Spring 2019
Dr. Randy Brooks

Memories

by
Emily Reeves

This collection is dedicated to Dr. Brooks and my fellow classmates who made Global Haiku a great learning experience and a fun class.

Ever since I read Peggy Lyles’ work, I was really fascinated with it. I loved her style of writing and what she wrote about. I look up to Peggy Lyles and her work. I used her work as an inspiration and template for how I write haiku. I wrote about things in my life that I have experienced. Through writing these haiku, I was reminded of specific times in my life. In this collection are some of the best haiku that I have written over the semester that brought up specific memories. Some of these haiku are my favorite because they reminded me of things in my life that I hadn’t thought of in a long time. As soon as I wrote those haiku, those memories were in the front of my mind like they never left.  I hope these haiku remind the readers of their own memories and bring smiles to their faces.

eraser shavings on the table
I remember
past mistakes

nervousness vanishing
turtles
coming out of our shells

up before the sun
to catch
the early morning flight

a home run
high fives with strangers
all around

scars
on my shoulders
my story

your smile
makes me
smile too

warm summer night
a tent
under the stars

I put my headphones in
a break
from the world