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Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Feast or Famine Haiku

war haiku
Image credit: Dick Blick Art

Slaughtered fleshes, war
win or lose, just remains left
alongside Nature

alongside Nature
mass massacre, then famine
ludicrous war

ludicrous war
feast for eyes, famine for land
Bruised Ecosystem


-written for Magpie Tales


12 comments:

  1. I love haiku and I like how you strung them together with the last line. Haiku is wonderful!

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  2. A banquet table of Haiku...each adding to the one before....lovely writing!

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  3. "ludicrous war"--says it all.

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  4. Creatively presented, Uma.
    Shows the futility of war in such few words...

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  5. Very well written Uma, there is always loss in war.

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  6. War is terrible also for the nature..

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  7. love this cascade...the theme is grim & so is the reality...nicely executed..

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  8. Beautiful bunch of haiku that shows the ugliness of the most intelligent of all the creations of nature who is treating her the worst! How long can he forget that there is a limit to her patience? She will make him realise!

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  9. that was lovely! the consequences of war well narrated through Haiku

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