Sunday, January 11, 2015

776 - Much haiku about something.

Illustration by gipi.

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #195) presents a list of words
that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  
The words this week are:


capitulate, ennui, sense, end, condemn, list,
single, inky, smell, render, generate, channel


Much haiku about something.

A true God is love,
Or so the story is told.
Actions disagree.

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When a single God
Needs to be channeled through man
He’s rendered useless.

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Fundamentalists
Use guns to push old ideas.
Inky responses.

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Capitulation
Is not on the agenda
No sense of an end.

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While quick to condemn
The press smells a good story
And generates fear.

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“They envy our life”
Say our leaders, piously.
How wrong can they be.

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Feelings are aroused,
Anger replaces ennui,
But impotence too.

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All religions kill
And kill, time and time again,
The list is endless.
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015
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27 comments:

  1. I so often wish your writing was fiction...

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    1. Me too. Part of the reason I haven't written much recently is a difficulty in getting away from social issues; everything get filtered through the lens of social justice and climate science.

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  2. You always were one for the high horse, leaving me the low one.

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  3. The whole subject makes me feel sick and reduces my wife to tears. I wonder when we will bite the bullet and fix the problem?

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  4. I love how you used haiku to format this poem because there is so much motivation in this, and the haiku format compliments that.

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  5. powerfully penned. with all the latest headlines, the last haiku rings a bell

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  6. If man creates god than inevitably there will always be war...and on that cheery note - happy Sunday to you!

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  7. Our world is enriched by our differences. Nothing good can come out of all being the same. It will be up to our children's children to do something about it only they would lift their heads from their iPads and iPhones.

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  8. A perfect reflection on the times we live in.

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  9. Masterful how you tell the story of murderous religion despite the limitations of form and word list you imposed on yourself. In way, your poem proves the opposite: that spirit can soar despite the deadliness of formality. Well done.

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  10. Although the end results are quite different, we are on the same wavelength.

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  11. ha. you have to watch the fundamentalist....
    most war is based on religeon...or money...you know...
    sad when it is prabably that seperation that keeps us
    where we are....

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  12. An apt week to talk about those wielding the sword of fundamentalism.. But somehow we can really try to move ahead..

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  13. Yes, you have nailed it. Completely.

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  14. Each Haiku a powerful statement..vivid, beautiful. My favorite right now is,
    'While quick to condemn
    The press smells a good story
    And generates fear.'

    I am sure as I reread them that will shift and another will speak deepely to me

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  15. Witty and smart, short and in the target!

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  16. Powerful indictment of the reality that we see playing out before us these days. Ugly truths presented in such simplistic beauty it pierces the reader.

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  17. When a single God
    Needs to be channeled through man
    He’s rendered useless.


    exceptionally brilliant...wonderful words to read...understand and feel!

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  18. It's time humans grew up...stopped living in fear of something that is a figment of their imagination. Why are they so weak that they have to believe in an intangible fantasy rather than their own ability to be?

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  19. Oh how sadly true, that last one!

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  20. It's a shame about the state of the world... Well written.

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