Friday+Haiku+-+Oct.+28

Friday's haiku - Toni Morrison/quiet time experiment


 * Janie **
 * Her hair, long and curly **
 * Her face, beautiful as flowers **
 * Her life, controlled by men **
 * But she finally escapes thunder **
 * She finally lives her life **
 * -Jacqueline Johnson **

The squirrels running Force leaves to fall to the ground Oppressing my footprints -Tyre Miles

My blood feeds your roots. Your bark shows my scars Your limbs hang my grave Through murder we become one in the same -Whitney Jenkins
 * __Back to Nature from Which I Came__**

Haiku Poem 5,7,5

Free, dew on grass, space woman, and child run, master search, kick up dirt Michelle Hopson

haiku for TM on my back a bullseye burning sun blood red flows like the Mississippi while i tread toward freedom -SE

Beauitful tornado Hits tropical rain forest tree damaged still breathing -Kiah Rothschild

Ana Ibanez The dust has settled lonely beauty shows her face through peaceful green grass.

an empaling wind casts shadows...a muddy floor leaves pain. leaves hunger. >Benjamin Gonzalez

__Scars of Life__ Scars embedded deep Rough into the skin. Unwanted memories of Survival, Sufferings from cruel beatings. Scars of life that never fade away. -Romi Jawanda

Haiku title: __Wanderer__ Bright lights, ocean skies Red brick roads, I wandered far As blazing winds gust.

Haiku 2 title: __Visions__ Looking at statues Visions for equality

Posted by: Derek Webber
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__The Depths of My Struggle__ Trudging on an **OVERBEARING** hill I weep. - Devon Boone
 * Leaves ** seep into the gravel beneath
 * Cold Concrete** drifts between my feet

winter is almost here the statues not feeling the cold only pride and much more Carlos Flores

Thru weary times we tread thru freezing cold blizzards One more hurdle leaped leads closer to the goal. - Anthony Martinez

Basenji swallowed souls empty echoes, yelling grass panting trees, Ridgeback. - Kiani Shaw

Stillness of trees immensity in bronze remembrance roots amongst the great coolness of breeze-in silence they speak. -Erika Shanklin

Trees swaying in the sky.
Catching glimpse of new light Higher, higher, red leaves fall and die, The past buried behind them. -Cindy Vang

The glistening wet grass, chilled by the blood colored leaves. Leaves sharp enough to kill, as they fall like swords from the tall trees. -Peter Bowie

Black crows in Fall air, Flying, unhindered through Autumn winds-- Dare I seek their freedom? -Marion Sawyer

I am alive looking at the sky, thinking of words, so I can describe life, It doesn't matter whether I am black or white, I am connecting love and life, And watering the trees, So they can enjoy life.. Juan Gastelum

The birds were singing The morning sun shined on me The brisk air cooled me -Monica Silva

I saw the flowing grass easy as a sweet nectar tree glooming sun shinning upon me I knew I was home -Courtnei Johnson

Blowing in the wind emotions sway away brisk as the trees lifting my head i feel at ease -Dwayne Wilson

Falling distilled leafs They landed under limped trees shielded from flowing sun -Aundrane Fletcher

Chirping birds awake sun glistens across the sky the new beginnings -Dorothy Kolen

there are a lot of trees in the mountains. everywhere it looks green. Harpreet Sahota.

The puncturing leaves lay beneath the whispering howls of the wind -Jorge Gomez

Bare feet race through wet grass as birds stop to warn of the shackles of the masked. -Othilia Figueroa

Mountainlions devouring their food the still atmosphere and still bloodlines radiant growth of men, soon prey.

Steven Pope

Late night. Still awake. Wandering and reflecting. Active mind. No sleep -Jayla Tunstall