PACE Global Haiku • Fall 2006 Dr. Randy Brooks

Carol Colby

No Way to Reach Me: Selected Haiku by Carol Colby The following haiku were written throughout my semester-long haiku course. I learned so much about haiku and what it means, as well as the powerful affect it has on readers and writers alike. The simplicity of haiku, and the use of only a few select words emit a powerful message to the reader, and that can be more powerful that a longer poem. I selected the following haiku for this collection based on the responses I got from my classmates, as well as the feelings and moods they produce.

lean in the doorway train glides by… morning cigarette

sunlight and dust mingle together on Cosmo’s fur

foot taps lightly rustling of papers during the exam

musty apartment smell of cologne and dust reminds me of you

we laugh as we stumble home my hand in his

© 2006, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
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