haiku-usa

A blog devoted mainly to haiku and senryu and to thoughts about, and inspired by, haiku and senryu.

Haiku is to poetry as espresso is to coffee.

Saturday, December 31, 2016

starving children
. . .
switching channels

First published in Frogpond

Adelaide said...: Some images are too hard to look at.

wishing you the best for 2017

Adelaide; 6:25 PM
Warren said...: Isn't that a first impulse and human nature, at least for some of us - good one, Bill.

Warren; 6:40 AM
Gwil W said...: switching news

channels

hunger for truth; 6:52 AM
Bill said...: Yes, they are, Adelaide. Unfortunately, they are sometimes the ones we should look at and think about. All the best to you.

Thanks, Warren. Yes, I think we can all recognize the impulse. I think that's why I wrote the poem.

Thanks, Gwil. Does truth get the ratings?; 11:54 AM
Danaelle said...: The images send us a lot of guilt. We all dream of a perfect world, but stay powerless.; 2:49 AM
Bill said...: Thanks, Daniele. The question, of course, is how complicit are we in our own powerlessness.; 12:14 PM
Crafty Green Poet said...: too true; 4:31 AM