American Earth Haiku
American Earth Haiku
1.
Eye see what it sees
sometimes what you think it sees
want to want to see
Celestial dirt
once slow aerial forces
now form our Earth’s soil
As powerful as
the experience of the now
taste of universe
What seems desolate
is teeming with smaller life
ask all winter birds
Turn seasonal wheel
small percent of energy
is used with each turn
Have we done enough
to fix the wrong to our land
in our very soil
2.
Sit and read essay
about Albatross slaughter
snow fall in morning
an ecology
now based on the absence of
all of one species
To nature as man
once another finds control
will always destroy
Long valleys of grain
American open space
boxed in by mountain
Mind conservation
after last male pigeon seen
never before snow
Once in a lifetime
the morning dove takes a seat
Passenger Pigeon
3.
Primeval landscape
massive Niagra Falls
heroic and hard
At the central store
the town meets to be friendly
centralized purpose
Build community
thoughts on centralized purpose
around water holes
The indigenous
and the metropolitan
two separate worlds
Build super cities
massing of humanity
overflowing lake
No unity here
seasons of humanity
just stark dried branches
4.
Today find ourselves
soulless metropolitan
consume everything
Shrine of buffalo
whitened skulls in a large pile
dew on their forehead
Travels upward
always first with arguement
about springtime basin
Primeval landscape
barren snow of Antarctic
dogs harnessed to sled
Green Spruce and Willow
provide support for a home
a seasonal tent
Along a snow bank
a bright red fire hydrant
need for the outside
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