PACE Global Haiku • July 2006 Dr. Randy Brooks

Jacqueline Kauffold On Francine Porad

Haiku by Jacqueline Kauffold Within daily conversations we have a tendency to direct people with too many words giving them no room for their own thoughts or imagination. Haiku to me, gives the reader the opportunity to combine the writers thoughts with the readers to create a unique and personal form of poetry. Although creating haiku is different from our daily form of conversation, I embrace the creative and simplistic clips of thoughts that bring both a beginning and opening along with an invitation for the reader to create and embrace the ending in his or her own personal way. Reading haiku has a creative way of opening the reader’s mind into clips of ones life creating a personal epitaph within each haiku.

sizzling summer heat waiting for… the storm to come

childhood friends shooting hoops h-o-r-s-e

painted sky turned to black with poka dots

The Teenager taking kids to school mom’s hug pushed away the back seat a backpack sits morning paper favorite coffee cup phone rings words crossed begging for compassion secretary calls a look of thanks bells ring by Calleen Wrigley and Jacqueline Kauffold

silver photograph a worn leather frame under his pillow

© 2006, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
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