everything
returns to dust
Fallujah
I know traditional ku/waka avoid the political, so maybe this is just a cranky 3-line poem. Whatever.~ Billie
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- Billie Dee
- BILLIE DEE is the former Poet Laureate of the U.S. National Library Service. A multimedia artist and writer, she is especially interested in haiku, tanka and related forms, as well as "main-stream" lyric poetry. Billie publishes both online and off.
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You are right about that 'rule', but this one works for me precisely because it does not contain emotion, but lets the reader create their own emotion as they read it. It is tricky to do, and plenty of folks will not buy this, but I think it is a 'keeper'.
The hell with the rules sometimes!
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