PACE Global Haiku • July 2006 Dr. Randy Brooks

Erica Lamarche

Seasoned Memories by Erica Lamarche I chose these haiku and this rengay for my personal collection because they bring back happy memories for me. When I wrote these, I put myself back in my childhood or immersed myself in my imagination, thinking of what made me feel good. As my son grows up, he brings out memories of my own childhood. I would like to think that anyone that has lived in a small town may have had summertime memories such as these or can relate to playing in the leaves in the fall. I enjoyed writing a rengay with my husband because we are so different in many ways and it was neat to see where our ideas would go together. We have both worked very hard to turn our property into our very own paradise and as we wrote together we seemed to go back in time to what it might have been like when my family ran the farm generations before us. I hope to bring out the same warm feelings in the reader of my haiku. I hope to take them back to a place in time that is happily revisited when they read my haiku.

small town my bicycle knows the way

hot sand under my feet I run

built with love children’s dream house of cool wet leaves

© 2006, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
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