PACE Global Haiku • January 2009
Dr. Randy Brooks

Sharing the Memories

by
Nicole Wallace

When I first signed up for a class in haiku, I was unsure what to expect. I ordered the books and started reading them, and I was pleasantly surprised at what I was reading. My mind was going to places it hadn’t been to in a long time. I was
instantly jolted back into childhood and lost loves like it was just yesterday when I had experienced them. It is very hard to describe to others the feelings that you get when you experience haiku unless they to have read haiku and received the same satisfaction. It is amazing to me how such short poems can insight such emotion and range of thought. In the case of haiku, the simpler the more range of experience it incites. I am glad that I decided to take the class or I might have never had the chance to experience the magic of haiku.

as the snow falls
eyes light up
thinking of angels

all day
under autumn trees
best friends

floating butterflies
dancing with each other
barefoot in the grass

scar on my chin
ss I look into the mirror
I remember my best friend