Wednesday 11 August 2021

Mariangela Canzi and Ian Storr lending Presence into the MahMight Zone






bloody sunday

migrants work

in burning fields


Mariangela Canzi 



Mariangela Canzi said:

"I would like to send you my most recent haiku. I wrote it in one go last Sunday after hearing terrible news on tv.

Last Sunday breaking news: An African migrant died of a heart attack in southern Italy. He had been forced to work in the fields at noon. Fatigue and heat killed him.

I felt deeply shocked and irate. Words suddenly flowed into my mind and I wrote this haiku."





traffic lights at red

a man with no fingers

asks for money


Ian Storr





Mariangela Canzi says:

"Ian Storr's haiku profoundly struck me. I think a discreet yet powerful emotion seizes the reader and leads him to think about our life and our challenging world. A challenge we have to take up."



Here is Mariangela's quotation from 

'Waiting for Godot'...

Vladimir: 

"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet."


And from 'Withnail and I'...

Withnail:

"These are the sort of windows faces look in at?"



Alan Note:

Ian Storr's incredible haiku comes from this sequence:


Blue Lotuses - Ian Storr

https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/bluelotuses-ianstorr






Ian Storr also helps make this amazing journal come alive 

with his fellow editors:

Presence

Britain's leading independent haiku journal

web links: 

https://haikupresence.org

https://haikupresence.org/submit/


And all fine poetry journals need a bit of extra loving:

https://haikupresence.org/subscribe/







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