Done for Haiku Heights
Blood
our red eyes
Squeezing blood from stone
hungry kids
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 18/11/13I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
Haiku Heights Prompt: Blood
18 Monday Nov 2013
Posted in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
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this is so moving and heart wrenching…….great lines Celestine…
Thank you so Sumana! 🙂
Kids will do that 😉 Have a good week Celestine
Thank you Al. You too. 🙂
This haiku is heart-tearing to any mother. Thanks.
You are very welcome, Alice. In my former neighbourhood and even elsewhere over here, I know of kids who go hungry all the time with no food in sight!
Thanks for keeping the world view before all our eyes. I feel very sad to hear this. Is there anything that can be done?
I know that more and more American children go to bed hungry as well. In some inner city poor areas all the food stores have all closed. There are only fast food chains left (ex Camden, New Jersey).
I’ve also read that there’s more than enough food produced in the world for everyone to share.
((SIGH))
Alice
You’re conjuring powerful images!
Am I? Thanks so much!
I would never have thought to use blood as a subject for a poem, a haiku, or any writing. It’s amazing what some (you) can do with words.
Thank you Judie. it is a difficult prompt.
hungry kids
mothers weep pebbles
nothing left
nothing left
in the cooking pot
dying hearth
dying hearth
cold empty black pot
hollow child
That is so sad.
It is Nana
A sad reality.
Thanks!
Definitely a powerful piece of writing.
Thank you Kim
Sad … paints a powerful reality !!!
It does, Amrit. 🙂
Ah so!
Yes| Thanks Jeremy 🙂
It breaks my heart that around the world, children go hungry…often, dead asleep, I’m awakened by my youngest child, as she shakes me awake and says ” I’m hungry, mommy.” Springing into action, although my ghost is still asleep, I cannot let my tiredness allow me to fail my child, knowing so many kids in the world go hungry all the time. Excellent poem. You got me thinking and tugged at my heartstrings.
Eva, the situation is really dire in these parts of the world and elsewhere. (sigh). Thanks for that bit. 🙂
We need to do something about it. Each of us can. I wish everyone would step up.
You’re welcome, my friend
Ooh.. I think greed, and my dear country Nigeria. Sad.
Ghana too, dear Nifti.
I think I’ll give Ghana a bit more credit than I can it’s neighbor..
LOL! 🙂
Humbling ! Thank you for reminding us.
The pleasure is mine dear friend!
hmmm…quite a sad picture painted, artistically done
Thank you kwanima.
i sense from your words something very powerful in the air…
Thanks! Hunger can make one’s eyes red!
Unfortunate reality, your words make it more conspicuous Celestine.
Thank you Reshma
Your poetry distills the greatest sense from the fewest of words. I love this haiku.
Thank you Dela 🙂
So sad.
Yes indeed!