EN340
/ IN350 Global Haiku Tradition
Dr. Randy Brooks
Millikin University PACE Summer 2004
Bridget Lamb
Selected
Haiku
by
Bridget
Lamb
It
is my understanding that haiku is a cut up sentence that lets
the reader's imagination wonder. The more I wrote my haiku
and other people read them, I realized how everyone forms
their own relation to the haiku if they did relate to it.
Ever
since I have been in this class I think about writing haiku
all the time. So, I now carry a little notebook around with
me. When I think of one I write it down. I guess you could
say I really do not have one certain approach. I think about
most of them when I am sitting at work at my desk or when
I am taking a walk in the evening. Sometimes I think about
them when I am on my way home from work.
After
I write my haiku I will usually take them to one of my friends
at work. She usually reads over them. It does not bother me
if she tells me it sucks or wants to change something. After
all, the only way to get better is to listen and take other's
advice when needed.
husband
and wife
dancing in moonlight
romance once again
hometown
celebration
beer tent arrives
old friends reunited
walking
the streets
late at night
daughter and I
hot
summer day
detasseling corn
storm rolls in
spring
is here
weather is just right
break out the bike
cool
blowing winds
rolling waves
boat begins to rock
cool
spring afternoon
rain falling gently through
the trees
a walk to remember
the
indian waits to dance,
fire glowing bright
drums beating like a heart
people
laughing,
late at night
stars and moon gleaming
they've
gone
the children sit alone
no
sky, only darkness
a dream is yet to come
but still teardrops fall
