Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Earth Day 2008


soft summer wings
this greener cocktail flies
above the dust /_m


earth day haiku --
writer's block ...
clouds roll pass me /tm


earth day 2008
we the mouthpiece
for trees, the sea, the wind/tc

Long icicle -
a drop of water falls,
toward her centre. /vs


smell of rain
a shiver through the trees--
sound of windchimes/gc


life to love - -
arms wide
hug a tree /fb


earth day
each day I walk
over all this life /kr


walking the trail
I pause by the chaparral--
Earth Day /jd


earth day
celebration
for the earthits /sm


small hours
shuffling bedtime
and earth hour/as


as - Alan Summers
fb - Famida Basheer
gc - Gillena Cox
jd - John Daleiden
kr - Kala Ramesh
_m - magyar
sm - Shanna Baldwin-Moore
tc - Tiong Chunghoo
tm - Tyrone McDonald
vs - Vaughn Seward

Renku editor -- Gillena Cox
Photo -- Gillena Cox

From April 22nd to 25th you can email me or post as a comment your 'earth day haiku'
and i'll add it to the renku

Some environmentalists have grown critical of Earth Day, particularly those in the Bright green environmentalism camp. They charge that Earth Day has come to symbolize the marginalization of environmental sustainability, and that the celebration itself has outlived its usefulness
Earth Day

9 comments:

Area 17 said...

A difficult one that. A friend of mine has written a poem about Earth Day, but in reverse, as her grandmother in Baghdad has only ONE hour of electricity and it is always almost at 430am when she'd rather be sleeping.

small hours
shuffling bedtime
and earth hour


Alan
With Words haiku comp

Masago said...

Earth Day (2008-04-22) here in Edmonton, Canada was celebrated by the ending of a 5-day snow storm. By late afternoon over a foot of snow had fallen, the Sun had come out, and the snow was beginning to melt.

Long icicle -
a drop of water falls,
toward her centre.

shanna said...

earth day
celebration
for the earthits

my daughter used to talk about the earthits she could hear them when she put her ear to the earth

shanna

Bill said...

A good group of poems from a good group of poets. And a good group of people, too.

Magyar said...

soft summer wings
this greener cocktail flies
above the dust
_m

Gillena Cox said...

Thank You, all of you; for making the Earthday Renku a success


much love
gillena

Gabi Greve said...
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Gabi Greve said...

Thanks to all for a great collection of Earth Day Haiku!

GABI

Unknown said...

Thank you Gillena san,
It is very pleasant thing to see world corroboration of Earth Day haiku.
I enjoyed.

sakuo.