Global Haiku • Summer 2024
Dr. Randy Brooks

Hidden Thoughts Collection 2024

by
Bella Mattaliano

The author Isabella Mattaliano, known as Bella, is a closed off person. During her writing throughout this course, she revealed deep thoughts within her work. She focused on putting her thoughts in a first person view that involved other beings or events that revolved in her life. The author focuses on her personal thoughts that can be relatable to her readers (to put them into the writers shoes) who read and then create their own stories based on her work. Her type of writing ranges from personal thoughts involving, love, hardship, internal / external conflicts, and childhood loss. As someone who knows the author personally, would not know these thoughts existed if they read her work with no author credited.

soft kiss
a cold breeze
all a dream

desk chair squeaks
on the classroom floor
class finally done

I chase
the theif
my own child

a red toy whizzes
through the summer night
pauses in the lamplight

journeying afar
to a new place called home, yet
roots remain true