Haiku and Senryu

by Mitch Berman, Shirley Wolf, and Mitch's students

 

 

 

 

By Mitch Berman:

 

 

Girl marries old man

Shuts eyes, throws in the fountain

Coin and coin and coin

 

Awkward together

Two kids in a horse suit

In a school play

 

 

 

 

By Shirley Wolf:

 

Dark curtains of night

Fall softly blotting out light

Challenged by the moon.

 

A peal of thunder

Lightning cracks the sullen sky

Introducing rain.

 

Close upon my heels

She will not leave me ever

Every move a mimic.

 

Rainbow arcs the sky

Shooting arrows of color

At rainwashed windows.

 

 

By Mitch's Students:

 

Mount Pleasant

CMU, lots of cows

Where's the mountain?

 

- Adam Mills

 

Canada

Our neighbors to the north

Cold up there, eh?

 

- Adam Mills

 

Grey red yellow black

spring 2000 class schedule

your future within

 

- Dave Friedgen

 

Gooey smelly moosh

walking's no fun anymore

with poop on your shoe

 

- Dave Friedgen

 

Trey Parker Matt Stone

Cartman Kenny Stan Kyle Chef

They're funny as hell

 

- Dave Friedgen

 

Grass over stone

cool wind blows

I still visit you

 

- Regina Mitchell

 

The light post above

Alone without neighbors

Yet still shining bright

 

- Karmen McClintic

 

Chilled face

Hot body

In from the cold

 

- Stephanie McNeill

 

Young child

Unwrapped Christmas gift

New toy of paper

 

-         Stephanie McNeill

 

 

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