Haiti Collage

HAITI COLLAGE

Turn away from the idea of Earth destruction

Earthquakes are Earth yawning

She stretches Herself after rest periods

Simply shifts position

Don't women change their minds once in a while:

Too bad about the poor people who don't have much choice

All the good farming land had been scoffed up

They suffer more than the rest of us.

We are not the center of the Universe

We are subjects of Earth Mother

Simply one species among many

What makes us so important?

We choose where we live,

Live on a fault line,

It's your fault.

An art supply catalog

Displayed over a hundred

Strips of color tones and names

I reposition these to imitate layers of rock

That have decided to let go

Long, latent strata

In the chaos of new structure

Releases her tensions

Metamorphosis happens

We are only one small part of nature.

What newspapers call disasters

Are not disasters.

They are simply earth Mother

Doing her thing.

Tom Stock

Manorville, New York
Doctors Without Borders

Children of Haiti (Triple Haiku)

Children of Haiti (Triple Haiku)

Children of Haiti
eat dirt with swollen fingers
shivering ashes.

TV preachers talk
lies like lava run uphill
I step over it.

Schools destroyed here
children work the dark corners
why do we wait, please?

Gary Percesepe
Dayton, OH
United Church of Christ

After the Earthquake

After the Earthquake

Burnish your public image by airlifting relief to Haiti.

Pose for pictures next to medical supplies for Haiti.

Alert the media about your students’ fund drive for Haiti.

Talk about regime change for the failed state of Haiti.

Film looters for Fox News from Haiti.

Put your volunteers in yellow T-shirts for photo ops milking the disaster in Haiti.

Write an Op-Ed giving historical perspective on Haiti.

Comfort the teenager whose whole family perished in Haiti.

Post a blog showing off your knowledge about Haiti.

Click at a website and send your credit card number to somewhere else not Haiti.

Scam the elderly with your bogus charity for Haiti.

Go to church, pray for the fate of the world including Haiti.

Deal privately with your guilt about ignoring Haiti.

Nancy C. Keating

Babylon, New York, USA
Doctors Without Borders.

DADDY DON'T GO

DADDY DON'T GO

See the little girl
holding up the hem
of her new dress
so it won't get dirty
during her dad's second
deployment overseas

Clutching his hand as
he stands at attention
in his soldier uniform
no one has the heart
to separate them yet

Blinded by her tears
she cries out
won't let him go why
does he have to leave
his famly once again

Daddy don't go
daddy don't
dad eee

Roberta A. McQueen
Amityville, NY
Salvation Army

Meditation - Darkness to Light

Meditation - Darkness to Light

Light through loss
light through change
light in stressful times

God's light shines brightly
through all times

Close your eyes
into the darkness
a light shines
radiating into your heart
comforting
soothing any rough spot
any heart ache
worry or stress

Peace comes
light prevails
gratitude rests
in the heart
once again.

Judy Mosca
North Mankato, Minnesota
Red Cross