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HesaraghattaBangalore: tin
houses lean in mass
saffron lake, perspirationHesaraghatta4 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

Ask MeAsk me a question.
Ask me if this was a choice,
this life that I live.

Ask me if I want
your prejudice and hatred;
to be excluded

simply because of
the people I choose to love.
Despite their gender.

Because now I want
to ask something of my own.
Simply I ask why?

Weighted silence falls
as you scramble for a thought
to try and change me.

For how can you spin
a web of twisted untruths
to weave me anew?

And simply I ask
why? Why would you even try?

Ask Me3 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

EtiquetteI'm society
I'm tradition and Culture
And I will kill youEtiquette9 months ago in Haiku & Eastern

CrowdedGay pride all the way!
But I can't marry this man.
Only listen here!

Straight pride is bullshit!
Mother and Father say he's
Straights have no problems.

You know little pain!
African American
You cannot hate us!

Homophobe you are,
and that I am Caucasian.
for not understanding.

This world must focus
I'm just a girl who's lived up
on our world only.

Cant you see what we
to their expectations; but
go through! Cant you see

why you must support
I love him. Why can't we love?
us and our trails of

pain and suffering?
Why does society look down
Look only at us!

Turn around and see!
upon us? It's too crowded here…
ListeCrowded1 year ago in Haiku & Eastern

A ThoughtThe best art is made
By those who care not for fame,
But who love their craft.

In a perfect world,
The Bard's name is a secret,
But his tale is known.A Thought4 months ago in Haiku & Eastern

CS Lewis, It's All Your FaultSo, here I am in a clone motel on the edge of an industrial town. The room is comfortable, but impersonal, soulless. In an attempt to bring some feeling of home, I hang the little stone wolf on its leather thonging from the mirror as I shave in preparation for the day ahead. A day that will be spent in a dimly lit warehouse watching numbers scroll on the screen as the clatters and roars of industrial ovens and shakers fill the air.

Thank goodness then, for that hour between work and darkness, a time to explore the roads and paths that lead away from the hotel. Maybe to the ruined abbey across the fields, whose grounds will be closed for the CS Lewis, It's All Your Fault4 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

For JapanWhen your days are dark
We will each light a candle,
Bringing back the light.For Japan2 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

SorrowsWhat remains unsaid is haunting. You are repulsed by your train of thought,
yet realize that the truth may be worse than your strangled imagination.
reactions telling
the unspoken - ominous
...they have been touched

tears flowing
face contorted, body tensed...
i'm startled by his silence

The playground's edge;
sun-dress and sunshine
playfully splayed.
Childhood fading, she
caresses her baby bump.

begging bus fare -
clutching at hems
somber faces

Their marriage confounds;
her best friend,
his lover.
The CLACK gives a reprieve
...old ammunition

diaper sores
no comfort found
in sour milk

Six, no worSorrows2 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

rag geflexsattern pundered,
shagments frattered;
plaven hundered,
temnants rattered.

shagments frattered,
dound to grust;
temnants rattered,
rained with stust.

dound to grust,
sardens galted;
rained with stust,
faviors saulted.

sardens galted,
plaven hundered;
faviors saulted,
sattern pundered.rag geflex1 year ago in Haiku & Eastern

1930's Haiku1930s Haiku

After Wall street crash'd
Poetry was forc'd to be
Economical1930's Haiku6 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

LGBT HaikuRainbow colors shine
Pride of one's self, love of life
A shield of honorLGBT Haiku1 year ago in Haiku & Eastern

Sleep is uneasy,
the side-walk too obdurate
for peaceful dreaming.Deprived3 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

Peace Haiku

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how ironic
the city of churches
a target

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"war crimes"
implies that war
is not criminal

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war
is over
—we lost

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in the instant
time stopped
—man lost

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how strange
to kill and die and hate
for an idea

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peace—
so much more
than the absence of war

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peace—
we could try it
what's the harm

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war—
fighting for nothing
but a grave

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blue sky
bluer sea
green earth
this is my flagPeace Haiku4 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

LoveHe cannot wait for
Her words of tenderness and
Grace: so patiently
He will sit near the gateway.

Still, it cannot change she's dead.Love1 year ago in Haiku & Eastern

androgynous men as revolutionan origami machine
is in the middle of a city
it's made out of a single piece
of paper folded
ten thousand times
a convoluted note of formal sentences
spasm

the words erase and melt
into something fundamentally
pure and graphic

this machines gears juggle
this origami orchid
is bleeding

we see it
changes
in a quick moment
it bares its teeth

i just want change
a world that does not say
i am a monster

disharmony
creates dead things.androgynous men as revolution3 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

CairoJanuary brings
the thoughts of revolution
back to the cradle.

William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.Cairo2 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

American ApartheidA dream in three colors
Bisected, two sides by choice
A country, bleeds notAmerican Apartheid9 months ago in Haiku & Eastern

Seasons Winter

The colors are blanched,
and the song of limbs worn out.
Now the leaves will mourn.

Spring

Prime in her time, she
carries the buds to
warmth in her bosom.

Summer

Unrelentingly
the fire ball sent strokes of heat
to others below.

Autumn

Lovingly the cold
will whisper lullabies to
newborn shades of red.Seasons1 year ago in Haiku & Eastern

Haiku Poetry for Japan1. I wander the land
Searching for a miracle
How sad the world is

2. Flying in the sky
I pray for the lost and hurt
Please get better soon

3. The Earth shakes the ground
Strong waves crash into Japan
Hurting the people

4. The cherry blossoms
No longer rest peacefully
They lay torn and hurtHaiku Poetry for Japan2 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

Almost Enough Rope

Republicans and
Democrats have managed
to destroy us all.

Barney Frank with his
Fannie and Freddie idiocy
GW with his wars.

All the rest with the
unbridled lust for power
and cash they worship.

And we, the people,
who have so little brains that
we reward their evil.

We argue among
ourselves about which is
better... easy! Neither.

We have little time
to either save everything
or face harsher life.

The politicians
WE elected play with our
future like a game.

While we die, starve and
head toward future sorrow,
they spend our money.

On the grand life of
jets, good health care, and all the
things our money buys.

We deseAlmost Enough Rope3 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

Mob-HandedThey take to the streets,
they celebrate, joyful thousands,
a lone assassin,

whose hate robbed an innocent
man of his life. Blasphemy!Mob-Handed2 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

Petrified forest
of concrete and glass, far off.
The man doesn't look.

He knows the fence will prevent
his approach. Wasteland exile.Outsider2 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

Valhalla AwaitsBlack-hearted solider lost in a despair of memories,
his soul reduced to ashes, the smell of death never leaves,
but through the darkness she smiles, a light to send him home. Valhalla Awaits3 years ago in Haiku & Eastern

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