PACE Global Haiku • January 2007
Dr. Randy Brooks
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Shannon Williams

Haiku

by
Shannon Williams

I try to write haiku about special memories that hold an important part in my mind. Normally, these are things which I have not thought about for some time, but the memories will always be there.

mosquito
takes a taste
no more

winter
she came back
only to leave again

lights off
in the basement
firefly lamp

 

shortly after class
a star
appears

ice silenced town
the trees
broken

 

cracked and chipped
snowman
smiling

brown leaves
a dog plays fetch
alone

 

page by page
the diary of her life
burned

candle lit
bedroom
cold on the prairie

  

below zero temperatures
on the lake
without a crack

ice sickles formed
old red barn
not yet fallen

 

© 2007, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
All rights returned to authors upon publication.