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.
