winding road home:
forward in space, and yet
backward in time
FYI: My traditional 3-line haiku is written in response to the following visual haiku:
coming home
flower
by
flower
San Francisco Haiku Anthology, 1992
Jane Reichhold
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXXX: "reality check"
Reality Check
written in response to War Criminal Netanyahu's genocide denial rant at the UN
Did the Nazis
ask the Jews to leave?
at the UN
the P/Crime Minister shouts
to an almost-empty hall
family
house and olive-lined village
all lost in fireballs ...
even in dreams can she find
an escape route from Gaza
FYI: Haaretz, Analysis, September 26, 2025: Netanyahu's UN Speech Targeted Two Audiences Only: His Right-wing Base in Israel and Donald Trump
"'Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave? Kindly leave, go?" [Netanyahu] asked rhetorically, as supposed proof that Israel is not acting like the Nazis. Yet it is well known that in the early years of Nazi rule, that is precisely what they did – they actively encouraged the voluntary emigration of Jews from the Reich. Beyond this ill-judged comparison, Netanyahu's speech consisted entirely of recycled talking points that have been repeated ad nauseam in recent months. He offered no new statements about the future of the war in Gaza, nor the possibility of a deal"
And The Guardian, September 26, 2025: Israeli loudspeakers broadcast Netanyahu’s speech to UN into Gaza: Operation prompts outrage as Israeli PM criticises western countries for recognising Palestine as a state and pledges to continue war.
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXXXI: "this fresh morning in the broken world"
This Fresh Morning in the Broken World
lying on the ground
facing each other
in a pool of blood:
a one-legged Gazan boy
and his mud-stained puppy
another day
another refugee tent
another baby
skin loose on her bones
starving to death with open eyes
FYI: The title is taken from “Invitation” by Mary Oliver
...it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world...
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXXXII: "high holy days"
High Holy Days
Yom Teruah
pillars of smoke and fire link
Heaven and Gaza
Yom Kippur fasting ...
fifty miles away, a baby's skin
hangs loose on his bones
Gazan skies, tinged red ...
clutching his bible the rabbi
lost in thought
FYI: The High Holy Days are the most sacred period in Judaism, marked by introspection, repentance, and a focus on the Jewish New Year/Yom Teruah and the Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur.
And yet
never again rolling tanks (n)ever again bomber after bomber
More than 1,500 Jewish community members gathered in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, calling for an end to what they termed Israel's genocide in Gaza and an end to U.S. arms shipments to Israel.
Rabbi Elliot Kukla of Rabbis for Ceasefire said this year's Yom Kippur required action on the streets. "As a rabbi and a descendant of Holocaust survivors, I knew Yom Kippur had to be different this year," Kukla said. "I couldn't just quietly pray for atonement from inside a synagogue. We must be out here... crying out that we say no to genocide, no to ethnic cleansing, and no to the use of our tax dollars to bomb entire families."
Added:
why? I mumble
as the coffin is lowered
slate-gray clouds
Added:
the open eye
of a dead elk with no antlers
the sky, tinged with red
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