Showing posts with label Haiku. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haiku. Show all posts
Lack of Human Values (Haiku)

"Army", "war"
Killing fields of mines
tanks rattle in firing lines
innocent lives die.

Suicide bombers’ spree
maimed bodies thrown far and free
for merit from high.

Bludgeoned from behind
robbed raped or maimed, deeds unkind 
fatal victims lie.
"Stop abuse", "Child abuse", "beat"
An action so gross
a child misused by vile force
no-one hears his cry.
 

 26 Aug 2010


Haiku - three-line poem (5, 7, 5 syllables). Non-rhymed.

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Human Values (Haiku)

"Donate", "Donating", "Helping Hand", "helping"
Bestowed from above
philanthropists give with love
to those who have not.

With free will they rend
time, kindness and helping hand
volunteers unbought.

"Jailed", "Jail", "Prison", "Locked up", His home a prison
apartheid-free his vision
his strength of will sought.

His own life a bet
for country he faces death
a mere soldier’s lot.

4 Apr 2010

Haiku - three-line poem (5, 7, 5 syllables). 
Non-rhymed.


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