above
cloudsofsmoke
cloudsofsmoke
Gaza
above
NeverEnding Story, September 16, 2024
Chen-ou Liu
Commentary: This haiku is written in a vertical format and read from bottom to top. The format itself reveals the Narrator's/observer's bottom-up perspective, grounded in harsh reality of Israel's bombing of Gaza, a devastating fact that can be inferred from the results of huge bomb blasts, "clouds of smoke above clouds of smoke." The use of repetition "above" twice and "cloudsofsmoke" twice, in this extremely short haiku of 5 words is visually poignant, enhancing the emotionally suggestive power of this vertical haiku about Israel's genocide in Gaza (FYI: Middle East Monitor, Oct. 8: South Africa to present new evidence of Israel's genocide in Gaza to the International Court of Justice, ICJ)
Note: This vertical haiku is the opening haiku of "Relentless," a haiku set written in vertical and traditional formats:
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, XCVIII: "cloudsofsmoke"
Relentless
above
cloudsofsmoke
cloudsofsmoke
Gaza
above
smoky darkness ...
scream after scream the reasons why
all blow away
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