PACE Global Haiku • Fall 2006 Dr. Randy Brooks

Rick Bearce

Assorted Mishchief, Volume 5 by Rick Bearce After yet another semester in haiku, I feel as if my ability to write and analyze haiku has again increased. My writing this semester focused mainly on humorous aspects (as it usually does), but also took time to capture images of nature and ordinary life. In the past, the humor in my haiku has been based largely on humorous images (or at least images one would not usually associate with haiku). This year however, I began to use word plays and line breaks to create humor in my haiku. I found this technique harder to use, but also more rewarded. All in all, it has been another fun semester in haiku.

after dinner fortune cookies one short how unfortunate

passenger jet heading straight for the moon passes

day after Thanksgiving neighbor putting up lights in shorts?

fall afternoon with a bowl of soup— warmth of home

moonlit interstate 85 in a 65 the trooper… snoozing

3:00 am tonight show rerun still not that funny

© 2006, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
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