Danielle Berens See her project Haiku of Love See her essay comparing Mountain and Masajo Suzuki

preface i really like to write haiku that speaks to me my personal experiences have really been a huge influence on my haiku writing this semester and since this was my first semester writing haiku i really had a chance to use it as my outlet knowing that other people may or may not like or even really understand my haiku has never kept my from writing about a special moment i enjoy writing about several key areas the first is the simple things in life seeing life through a relaxed point of view has helped me to really see the world i would not have been able realize and see these aspects this semester if it wasn't for haiku that has helped me to take time and smell the roses the second area i have seen in my writing is that of people i am a person that is high effected by others, this has been revealed throughout my haiku the third and most prominent area is my haiku writing is about love mark andrew halverson, the love of my life, and i will be getting married on june 15, 2001 i have been able to express our ups and downs through the media of haiku and in many ways this has enlightened me. reader's introduction - lauren omohundro dani's haiku are all about her and what has happened in her life or in the lives around her she has a great sense of viewing not only visual things but feelings that people really do feel when in the circumstances she is able to convey through her haiku come home to her drunk he loves her even more for instance this haiku really gets the point across that she is waiting, or maybe not even waiting, for him to come home only to realize he comes in stumbling drunk her first reaction is to get angry but then he starts telling her how much he loves her basically he is a sweet drunk and really let's her know how he feels maybe because he can't tell her when he is sober in essence this and many of her haiku really make me think about the effects of what people do to each other and how our actions really do mean more to others than we think they do