EN340 / IN350 Global Haiku Tradition
Dr. Randy Brooks
Spring 2004 |
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haiku collection
by
Ben
Kress
This collection of haiku was compiled from class favorites of my work assembled throughout all of our kukai competitions. The central theme is alcohol, which seems to be a continuing theme throughout all of my artwork produced my senior year. I have also included a few camping haiku and a couple of Valentine's Day haiku that I really thought turned out well. In all of these haiku, the most important element that I focus on is the surprise delivered in the third line of most haiku. I really try to make my haiku as short as possible allowing room for the reader's interpretation. This group of haiku really reflect my personality well because they are all situations I have been in or witnessed first hand.
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country
road home
trailing power lines
fire on the horizon
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late
day harvest
a carroy halo
reveals his path
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lying
on edge
outside his window
pillows of orange
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summer
sunset
his favorite walk
past their tree
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spring break cleanup
he carries garbage
bottles t u
m
b
l e everywhere
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bright sunny morning
he awakes hung-over
. . . in the front yard
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bartender's last call . . .
returning his visa
twi
ce
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beads of gold
a drunk woman tumbles . . .
topless
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40 days
40 nights
. . . restraining himself
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Bourbon Street
his last drink
hits the ground
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secluded camping . . .
the crackling fire
surrounded by eyes
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gazing upward
in my tent
a spider gazes back
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sleepy lovers
call in sick
Valentine's Day
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Valentine's Day
. . . she wakes
to a rose's aroma
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©2004 Randy Brooks, Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois || all rights reserved for original authors
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