Global Haiku • January 2025
Dr. Randy Brooks

Heart of a Champion

by
Tionne Spates

My haiku collection will be titled “Heart of a champion” because it gives the insight of an athlete. My favorite haiku connected me with my sport as it reminds you while reading and writing them the pace required to reach your end satisfaction. My haiku show a perspective of working hard for your individual moment. As long as the effort is there and the mind is your moment will come.

My life has been changed by haiku now because I have gained a new hobby, I often just write stuff within my notes after games while listening to slow music to calm me down and I find this hobby very amusing. Haiku taught me that you down have to say too much or even rhyme in a poem to get a story across and that’s the part I found the most beautiful from it all.

sweating through
my shirt
does it pay off

lifting weights
thinking
of my smaller self

hot day
the work doesn't stop
run until I can't

not arrogant
I'm confident
I was doubted before

crowd full of rivals
booing doesn't stop
a basket creates silence

3 seconds left
the shot goes up
get it out the net