PACE Global Haiku • PACE November 2014
Dr. Randy Brooks

My Journey Throughout Haiku Class

by
Veronica McQuire

dedicated to my love, Saxxon

"Haiku is simply what is happening in this place, at this moment," declared Matsuo Basho, who is revered as the Shakespeare of haiku.

"This discovery of some small astonishment in the animal, vegetable, mineral world calls, in turn, for creative responsiveness. It is now up to the reaer to enter into the original experience of the writer, to couple the behled with the beholding, to identify with the 'moments's monument,' and to allow the captured enlightenment to lead wherever it will."
~ Raymond Roselieip

yellow lights
wet grass . . .
dancing with the stars

car in neutral
enjoy
the rainbows

two chirps
one chirp . . .
winter has arrived

Apple iPhone
broken
screen.

summer kiss
lotion bottle
please one more dollop

memorizing—
all the mistakes
I made with you.

cherry blossoms
bloom
my garden with you

nights
lonely nights
always alone at night