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/submit/
And all fine poetry journals need a bit of extra loving:
https://haikupresence.org/subscribe/
