EN340 / IN350 Global Haiku Tradition
Dr. Randy Brooks
Spring 2005
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Cory Hodges

kasen renga: Staples of Life

Lenard D. Moore's Haiku

DARK SUNSHINE
A collection of Haiku

by

Cory Hodges

This collection is entitled "Dark Sunshine". Most human beings got through life believing that they know everything about life, love, and happiness. We acquire happiness through money and the materialistic things, and we think in that sense that we live in the warm sunshine. In actuality that is the chill of the shade in which we really live. True sunshine is in the family, friends, and having a appreciation of life and death. We must understand that we are not satisfying our soul we are damaging it and possibly our next generation of children. This collection expresses the true happiness with laughter and pride.


     “Brothers”

in the lab
sweat on my brow
16 credits to reality

     friends forever
     live or die

love unsurpassed
army general
weakened by our command

no more games
it starts now…with you
future

     classes are not over
     plans, dreams to fulfill

come home soon
fatigues
hang on the war


breezy day
kasen kickball
class full of laughter


     Strangers

summer sun
lotion applied
on tanned skin

     waves crashing
     with sand between my toes

looking around
sexy people
Can everyday be a summer day?

caught my eye
as she turns to look
approaching slowly

     our words mix
     with suns rays

gust of
a cool breeze
sweeps us into eternity

Jill Guffey, Dave Koester, & Corey Hodges


ice covered tree
alone
on a hilltop


we laugh we cry
we live      we die…
      soulmates

©2005 Randy Brooks, Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois || all rights reserved for original authors