Twoku: Crystal catalyst / water needs impurity / in order to freeze. Threeku: Pure water won’t freeze / there must be a bit of dirt / for crystals to form.…
Here’s the full prose-text I wrote about these images, which I then distilled down to 17 syllables: “Windows of the old mill-turned-inn, overlooking the waterfall and rushing stream (small river?)…
Twoku: Election / mean, nasty, hateful / ends today. Threeku: Scary election / negative and rancorous / coming to a close. Fourku: Lesser of evils / our choice after so…
I wrote this “extra” haiku (senryu, actually) among many written and posted when the last big terrorist mass murder was committed by ISIS. Today, sadly, there was a mass murder…
Today, we grieve for the victims of hate in Lahore, Pakistan. SOURCE: from the NYT article posted on 3/27/2016 at 12:31pm EDT. PHOTO CREDIT: Arif Ali/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Twoku: A new year / the same old demons / waving guns. Threeku: A new year arrives / old demons find new voices / emboldened by hate. It’s getting worse,…
A mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, has left at least 14 dead and at least 17 others wounded. But San Bernardino wasn’t the only mass shooting in America on…
Twoku: Too many / days now live in / infamy. We all know the terror and atrocities that have been committed by zealots and radicals over the past few days,…
Originally posted on haikumages: redux…reblog of a previous haikumages haiku post… haikumages View original post
Twoku: Freedom fails / when church, state are not / separate. Threeku: When one religion / makes the laws, independence / no longer exists. Fourku: Independence lost / freedom failed,…
Originally posted on haikumages: Twoku: Memorial day / remembering those who died / so that we could live.
Twoku: Read the book / stilled voices we must / always hear. (Pictures taken at the 9-11 Memorial named “Rising”, in Valhalla, NY) Valhalla? The town is a fitting place…
Twoku: North threatens the South / again, what do I tell my / Korean daughter?
Twoku: State of the onion / layers peeling, revealing / what’s lying beneath.
Twoku: Concrete rat / gazes out upon / the new year. Threeku: Cement rat / sees business as / usual.
This is a re-working of a haiku from 2010, posted here (belatedly) with a heavy heart from recent events… NO! Causes can NOT be ignored–if there are causes we think…
Twoku: Dissidents defer / diffidence in order to / make a difference.
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