Anti-War Haiku Wall
by: Allen McGill (Mexico), H. Gene Murtha (USA),
Ron C. Moss (Australia)
new graves
in the old battleground
another sunrise
morning-glories bloom
as they speak of war
imperial armies
rise and fall -
an orphaned child cries
a stray dog
seeks food in the ruins
we laugh
play hide 'n seek
the B-2 overhead
women and babies
collateral damage
angry
from the 'dorothy
connection'
a series of one line linked haiku 'mountain sonnets'
awakened by the honking of cars
raging rivers follow raging clouds
pist at the men pist at each other
ask any minority it's apathy that kills
in your own backyard except you don't really own it
beyond reason a body-belt full of explosives
they hurt us ‘they’ started it all
leaking inside her cocaine
eighteen months old and dressed as a suicide bomber
armistice day whichever way you look at it we never learn
veteran's day parade the march after a few prayers and some church bells
a heated exchange about asylum seekers
all his life the sound of copters have spelled 'war'
lied to again he should know better
gg(1,7,13) ct(2,5,11) mm(3) sw(4,8,9,10) sa(14) pc(6,12)
gary gach cindy tebo marlene mountain sheila windsor stephen addiss paul conneally
Thread for
Peace from Bashos:
Gary Blankenship (gb) Peter Pache, John Dunphy (JJD), Gary Gach (gg) Soji,
Cindy Tebo (ct), Sprite, Tenzing (ktw), Lynne Steel (l), Benita (b), Marylouise
Knight (mk), Heather Madrone (hm), Lisa Janice Cohen (ljc), and Elbert
Pruitt (ep)
"that horror of harsh wire"* again the voices cut short /gb
*From "The Show," by Wilfred Owen, perhaps
the best of the English War
Poets, dead at 25 in the battle of Sambre Canal, 1918.
Vietnam protest draft cards burn / peter
Kent State a bloodied peace button / JJD
in the ashes of Thich Quanq Duc the monk's heart still beating / gg
treaty signed as the ink dries preparations for the next /gb
a bus bombed a village destroyed ashes,ashes, we all fall down /soji
texas tea(oil that is) it's to die for / soji
peace march tear gas tears / peter
we were half a million the media reported 125.000 /sprite
burning question for the motor pool 'what would jesus drive?' / ktw
oil for blood to appease the gods of nationalism /gb
gallons of gas burned traveling to the peace rally /l
somewhere in the world cars that work on water systems / benita
non-supported non-electric non-oil cars that run on water / b
the Guard called up how is that no one seems to notice /mk
train station packed peace activists of every color /hm
when else have so many demonstrated before a war hadn't taken place /gg
the peace candidate bleeding from a bullet wound /JJD
Mahatma Ghandi sits / peter
we spin and spin and spin to end up in the same shit /gb
a desire to be the eye of the storm /sprite
a step at a time behind Thich Naht Hanh /sprite
'war is stupid' my 9 year old explains to his brother/ljc
ploughing for peace the prophets at Parihaka /benita
defying the people UK leaders follow US aghast Europe watches /spr.
war as vendetta a son takes up his fathers sword / soji
winged flight but it won't be angels /ct
the arrested activist his clenched fist broken by cops /JJD
peace threads mostly about violence /l
labeled LIBERAL for giving a damn /ep
destroy to save weeds grow where children played /gb