Selected Haiku
by

Nick Walters

Global Haiku Tradition
Millikin University, Spring 2001


Nick Walters

A Word from the Author

When I enrolled in Global Haiku Tradition, I was basically looking for an easy way to fulfill a literature requirement. I then found a channel to write about and to release some feelings that are easier left unsaid: loneliness, anguish, and despair.

My haiku tend to focus on these points, touching upon the human emotions and drawing the reader in through curiousity. I have written various haiku, but the ones that tend to stick out are the ones written and focusing on these emotions and/or states of being.

As you read on, take in the meaning of the haiku and remain open, for you may interpret them differently each time you read them.

—Nick Walters

Reader's Introduction

When I look at the works of Nick, I notice that he tends to look into the darker side of human life if you will. His work has come a long way since the beginning of the semester, and he has come up with some intriguing works.

Nick is enrolled in the Haiku Writing Rountable next year. This course focuses on personal growth of haiku. As he continues his haiku development next year, I believe that he will come up with even better works.

—Nick Smith

her eyes glimmer
as I lean in
another man approaches

walking along beaches
grains of sand shift
only my footsteps appear

crying myself to sleep
I realize
things can only get better

  

 

prom night at last
my boyfriend
talking to someone else

hat to chest
the old man
gazes at his late wife's headstone

  

 

waiting room—
the chaplain approaches
a step slower

snow melting on sidewalks;
in all these years
her first walk alone

  

 

raindrops
he pulls her close
beneath the umbrella

new snow falls
her gentle footsteps
still remain

  

©2001 Randy Brooks, Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois || all rights reserved for original authors