Haiku Challenge... For Poverty?

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The library has issued a Haiku challenge, literary of course.

I"m no good at that sort of thing, so I'd like to ask for your help with this.

Pick a book that has a message about poverty, and write a Haiku, and I'll put it up on the board in the library. Get more awareness built, with a little bit of fun along the way.

Seventeen syllables.

Written in three

lines divided into

5-7-5

I look forward to your ideas!

Thanks!

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Could I get some clarification?

You say "pick a book that has a message about poverty, and write a haiku". Does this mean that the haiku has to be about a book? Or can it just be a haiku about poverty in general?

Thanks.

[bobbolink]

2. Yeah, being a library, they are in the business of pushing books.

:)

right now I'm in love with two books.... Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, and One Nation, Underprivileged/u], by Mark Robert Rank.

But I would have no idea how to make a Haiku of either!

Sorry I wasn't clear....

Other books I think of:

Street Lawyer, by John Grisholm

Milagro Bean Field War

The Overcoat by Nicolai Gogol

Les Miserables

Sorry I was unclear.... I wish I did poetry, I think this is a fun idea!

[1monster]

7. Les Miserables

Valjean stole a loaf
And served nineteen years a slave
For starving sister

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9. Beautiful! You've been doing this for a while, right?

These are great.. thanks!

:applause:

[1monster]

11. I've taught classes in Haiku.

:evilgrin:

[napoleon_in_rags]

3. Haiku

The Jungle is by
Upton Sinclair and it says
poverty sucks eggs.

(I am bad with Haiku :( )

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4. aw, I think it's good... but then, it could be that I have no taste.. ^_^

I just sent it to my librarian... we'll see what she says...

^_^

Thanks!!

[1monster]

5. Two one stanza haiku; one three stanza haiku.

Roof over our heads
Food for my children to eat
So little to ask

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Mail bring many bills
Pink slip in pay envelope
Wolf stands at the door

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Newpaper story
Hidden in woods behind mall
A small tent city

Tent city dwellers
Evicted by mall owners
No place left to go

Tents their only homes
Destroyed by the evictors
No more tent city

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on edit: My haiku was based on a newspaper article, so, per your clarification, they don't quite make the grade.

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6. These are wonderful! Surely we can find a book to fit them to!

Hmmm, how 'bout Rachel And Her Children?

Really, these are very fine.. thanks!

:yourock:

[1monster]

8. Thank you.

:blush:

[Fovea]

10. Things

If you have more things
and I have less things than you
it means not a thing.

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12. That is so fine!

Kinda reminds me of George Carlin's "Stuff".

:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

13. Here is mine:

Grapes of wrath anew,
dustbowl is in Iraq now,
with poverty here.

[bobbolink]

14. oooh, very good, and very moving!

Thanks!

[maryf]

15. Hard times

We need Studs Terkel
to explain what to do with
a new depression

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16. That's GREAT!

And really fits with current headlines...

I've sent this one on to the librarian, too.

thanks!

:applause:

[maryf]

17. so glad you like it!

I'm a huge admirer of yours and am happy I can give a little to you back!

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18. awww.......

:hug: :yourock: :hug:

You better be careful.. I'm the resident "jerk" around here, and I wouldn't want you to be shot as an accomplice!

:rofl:

[maryf]

21. I'll wear kevlar

I usually gravitate to "resident" jerks...

[bobbolink]

23. .

:rofl:

As someone else posted today, a bit of masochism is helpful...

:hi:

[bobbolink]

19. Welcome to DU, maryf!!

:toast: :party: :bounce: :woohoo: :pals: :toast: :party: :bounce: :woohoo:

[maryf]

20. Thanks!

I read alot more here than I write here, I get lost and can't find the threads again, but your welcome is very welcome!

[bobbolink]

22. once you have posted enough, you will have a thing called "MY DU" that keeps track of your

posts, so you can get to them easily.

Also, you can "bookmark" a thread, to come back to it.

That helps a lot.

Otherwise, it can be like wandering in the desert. :)

I'm glad you found your way back here! :hi:

[maryf]

24. that'll be probably a very long time!!

I did bookmark this thread anyway, My DU huh? It'll be more like My DUH! ;) Thanks!

[bobbolink]

25. Well, I was hoping your get your post count up, because I have a question for you for PM

and I can't PM you because you don't have enough posts yet.

sigh....

[maryf]

27. How many posts do I need?

A mutual friend of ours has my email addresses...if he catches this he can pm you those...best I think I can do???

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26. Jes' so you know..... your haiku is up on the library board...

with the Studs Terkel book.

It looks really fine.

:yourock:

[maryf]

28. Fantastic!!

I'm not only an exhibited artist, but a poet now!! lol! Thanks!