Global Haiku • Fall 2024
Dr. Randy Brooks

Life's Moments

by
Abby Wilken

These haiku are all about special moments from my life and expressed in ways that can be seen from the reader's point of view. They are all from different times or years of life, but each can be read as a personal memory of an event.

bonfire
telling ghost stories . . .
a twig snaps

the piles of work
adding up
dirty laundry

searching my closet
for the perfect outfit
to stay in

basement laundromat
my first friend
at college

old photos
the simplicity
of a Barbie birthday

my fish
not supposed to
float belly up

every day
opening the car door
a simple gesture

putting up the tree
childhood ornaments
paper handprints

home for years
leaving it behind
my last game