Haiku in Response to the Terrorist Attack

In Memorium of the Victims
September 11, 2001


English 170 Haiku Writing Rountable, Fall 2001


Fire of life
       ---flickers
  smoke admist the skyline

Mandy Hill


September 11
9AM
my clay pot falls over

Cathy Sadowski


candlelit faces
bowed in prayer

          anyone hear us?

Cathy Sadowski


fixed to the screen
we watch
afraid to move

Sarah Knutilla


an answer sought
pages flip rapidly
"To everything there is a season . . ."

Michelle Detering


I pause and stiffen
half mast
saddened, not defeated

Brock Peoples


toppling skyscrapers
invade my dream . . .
I fall with them

Ben Alvey


after the fear
an old flag
flown backwards

Sarah Knutilla


low tech
box cutters . . .
in complex design

Jason Salters


a child devours
his sprinkled, icy treat
as twin towers fall

Ben Alvey


dancing shadows
amidst the smoke
light up the silent streets

Nick Walters


light wind
mild sun
one plane in the sky

Brock Peoples


last words . . .
a cell phone message
on the answering machine

Dr. Randy Brooks


See a drawing by Jessica Brooks (age 6) and a related haiku her father, Dr. Brooks.


 

© 2001, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
All rights returned to authors upon publication.