Category: Poetry

For The Love Of Haiku

target exercise
more meteorites coming
aliens assist

My haiku for this week’s fun challenge at http://allaboutlemon.com/category/haiku-lovers/ is news topical! For those who didn’t catch the Russian meteorite story on Friday, here’s your chance to check it out at http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/15/russian-meteor-conspiracy_n_2694031.html

Protest haiku #1

wooden turkey

Not on the menu,
she stands alone in protest —
a wooden turkey.

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February might seem a strange time to write a protest haiku about turkey welfare, but Christmas and Thanksgiving aren’t the only times people eat the meat from these birds. As I post this haiku, there are billions of  turkeys undergoing the torture of factory farming. This happens 365 days a year.

Below are some links to “Compassion in World Farming” and “mscpa angell” — organisations which expose the horrors of this industry and look at ways to improve animal welfare.

http://www.ciwf.org.uk/news/turkey_farming/turkey_farming_in_the_uk.aspx

http://www.ciwf.org.uk/news/turkey_farming/christmas_turkeys.aspx

http://www.mspca.org/programs/animal-protection-legislation/animal-welfare/farm-animal-welfare/factory-farming/turkeys/turkeys-on-a-factory-farm.html

For The Love Of Haiku

kids’ play area
recluse’s idea of hell
wax ear plugs required

To join in with adollyciousirony’s haiku fun for this week, and to find out what others are saying about the playground image above (which, for those with less sensitive ears than mine, might be their idea of heaven!) visit http://allaboutlemon.com/2013/02/09/for-the-love-of-haiku-22/