PACE Global Haiku • Spring 2008 Dr. Randy Brooks

Kersten Haile

Pictures of Moments by Kersten Haile dedicated to: all the beautiful and ever-fascinating people that I meet on a daily basis authors note: My Haiku are an expression of me—how I view the world and how I feel the world views me. I try to capture the things that strike me in life—the good and the bad. This collection of haiku is a conglomeration of beauty, anxiety, accidents, love, change, and the mundane. Within you will find pictures of moments. I hope you can allow yourself to jump into the pictures and experience the moment as you read, finding our similarities and our differences…enjoy! I am a BFA Acting student at Millikin University. I am originally from Nebraska, where I was born and raised in Omaha. I’m the daughter of John and Kathleen Haile. My older brother Jacob lives in North Dakota with his Fiancée, Lexi, and his daughter ,Jaiden. I cherish and value my family and the love that we have for one another, we are a tight knit group that sticks together. I also love nature, blue skies, sunshine, oceans, mountains, flowers . . . I’m a big fan of that whole conglomeration of things.

readers note: With her playful words and refreshingly new topics, Kersten achieves a brand of haiku that reflect the many facets to such an amazing girl. Her poems can be bubbly and reminiscent of comforts or surprisingly funny and abrupt. This one-two punch makes Kersten worth reading and I know you'll enjoy. --Andy Jones

tap dancer fa-laps on the moon dotted street

voices in my head I've been driving for too long

dinner conversation issues rise so do our voices

CNN newsroom same topic new day

mischievous snowman lures me away from homework

rat-a-tat-tat pebbles tap her window— summer rendezvous

big fort made of scrap wood dad puffs his chest

bouncy ball college students in the grass

© 2008, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
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