Written for The Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 18 – February 18th – Theme or Word: Famine
This isn't an easy one to do I think. First I had to find the definition of famine, because I didn't know that word. I found that famine means hunger and starvation. To find another word with the same meaning I search on synonyms for famine and I found the following synonyms: poverty, misery, scarcity and starvation. With those words I think I can write a haiku (or maybe a few haiku), but it is really a tough one. So I hope that the following haiku are OK.
the cold winter
birds in misery
heavy snow
an old cow stable
a place for refugees
what a poverty
scarcity
water birds freezing
severe winter
Mother Earth cries
every day her inhabitants
starving of hunger
What a sad Challenge today. It wasn't easy and these series of haiku aren't masterpieces I think, but they are all very strong. (By the way: these are written in Kanshicho-style).
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| Credits: The face of Poverty |
Until tomorrow.
13 comments:
You did a good job with this series and with such a discouraging subject.
Shalom.
A very nice set of haiku. Love the first and the last haiku.
Mother Earth cries
every day her inhabitants
starving of hunger
Well said!!
Lovely set of haiku...and I loved the last one a lot...
When Mother Earth cries, you know things are bad...
A Famine of Ink
Wonderful Set.
Its same with me,When I find something hard,I come up with lots of them!
Well done ~ you write so well ~ namaste, carol (A Creative Harbor)
You did well for a very discouraging subject ~~
You did quite a good job with a very bleak prompt, especially since you weren't familiar with the word.
I loved this Haiku series on famine, and your picture brought it all to reality - not very pretty indeed. Eye opener, surely to the misery still existent in our world today.
'Mother Earth cries
every day her inhabitants
starving of hunger'
Very true.. Loved it so much...
Loved them all, especially the last one. Good job.
what a crazy world we live in
five illusions senryu
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