Earth We
Technology rewards us with conversations and closeness. We share like and subscribe. We zoom, link up and link in.
little square boxes
of people chatting online -
a live meeting
But what about our natural environment. The destruction is overwhelming. Building crumble like the tossed paper balls of am irate writer. Machine guns and tankers deface the landscape. Where are the trees? The earth cries as blood is spilt.
TV screen shots -
the anguish of a mother
as her child goes limp
The fishes in the sea; who cares about them as trash finds its way from rivers and streams to its depths annoying sea animal and plant life. Fishes must be crying too.
feet along the sand
plastic bottle clean up -
here's a garbage bag
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This haibun/haiku series grabs my heart, Gillena! We pollute the earth with trash and violence. Mankind is a fallen creature but maybe we can change our ways...
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Very good collection of haiku for your haibun, Gillena.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your appreciation Dwight
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A truthful and timely haibun, Gillena, with a lovely series of haiku to link your prose together, into a technological paradox. We all love Open Link Live, but we are also aware of what technology does to the planet, and we are sad what television offers us on a daily basis. The final ‘here’s a garbage bag’ hits home.
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So much to be sorry for, alas I think the only thing we feed the soil with is the blood of innocents that make the black earth become fertile.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your appreciation Björn
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A much-needed reminder of how many of us harm the only home we have. Great write, Gillena!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your appreciation Frank
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"Fishes must be crying too."
ReplyDeleteThat's an awful thought, Gillena. Very well written.
Sincerely,
David
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Thank you for your appreciation David
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