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?)…
These epic platform shoes of a loved one have worked hard, walked well, and wandered far, performed, protected, and protested, before and during the pandemic. Now they need a little…
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…
Twoku: Frantic flurrying / Spring unsprung, now uncertain / in Winter’s last blast. – the Haikook
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,…
Twoku: Nothing coy / about eager koi / when hungry. The eyesight of koi fish is good enough, that the pond full of them moves as one towards the closest…
Twoku: Tragic, untimely / painful, ongoing, sadly / one more leaves too soon. Yet another young person we knew — a man in his early twenties — left us today. …
A few days ago, my friend lost her son, after years of struggle, to a drug overdose. It is an epidemic of addiction, taking yet another life before its time. …
– the Haikook Save
R.I.P. Robin Williams…
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.
