Blue Girl? When was the last time you wrote a Haiku?
Lance?
Dave?
Wren?
Ruth?
Ira?
Andrea?
On the Split This Rock Poetry Festival web site you’ll find a link to Blog This Rock where we can all read read haiku written to "Dubya" by attendees of the 2008 AWP Conference in New York City.
Let President Bush know how you feel. We’re all invited to do just that. Send a "Haiku Postcard to the President!" c/o
Split This Rock Poetry Festival
The Institute for Policy Studies
1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
Here’s mine:
I support our troops
but you can’t have my children.
Not for your mistakes.
~ Connie
Planet of the Blind 
ohdave, I’m glad the invitation finally found you. Thank you for this haiku about “the orphan Ali”. This one is particularly moving…
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Sorry I’m late to the party.
My invitation got lost in the mail.
Here’s my haiku, about the Iraqi boy Ali who survived a US attack:
The orphan Ali
in Baghdad burned and limbless lies
while you “bring ’em on.”
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Everybody talks
about the bird. Sing bird, bird
bird, bird is the word.
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There’s blood on the ground
For sweet sweet crude in the well
Let’s all go shopping!
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blue girl, you MUST have been “Haiku’ing” all morning considering the number of haiku(s) you have in one post. Well done!
Wren, Ruth, thanks to both of you for sharing as well.
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I’ve been Haiku’ing all morning. Here’s one I kinda like:
Raised to ignore facts
Always demanding your way
Makes me want to scream
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I’m up for it too! Here’s the one I’m going to send:
Policies of fear
Have terrorized all of us
The cost is too high
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I’ve written lots of haikus. Not necessarily profound or particularly good ones, either, but I’m up for it. Here we go:
Evil rich-boy George
Can’t have everything he wants
So he stomps it all.
There. Now, do I snail-mail this to Split the Rock Poetry Festival? Or… is there an e-mail address for haikus?
I’m confused. And I love your haikus, Connie and Steve. Thank you.
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Hey Connie!
I’ve never ever written a haiku. I’ll give it a shot, but I’m sure I’ll never be able to write one with as much meaning as yours. *Yours* connects with me 100%.
Why do I get the feeling Bush would say, “They all Haiku’d?! Well, bless them!”
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