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Thu Apr-03-08 08:53 PM
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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!
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Thu Apr-03-08 09:10 PM
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1. Could I get some clarification? |
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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.
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Thu Apr-03-08 09:15 PM
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2. Yeah, being a library, they are in the business of pushing books. |
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:)
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!
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Thu Apr-03-08 09:41 PM
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Valjean stole a loaf And served nineteen years a slave For starving sister
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Thu Apr-03-08 09:46 PM
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9. Beautiful! You've been doing this for a while, right? |
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These are great.. thanks!
:applause:
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Thu Apr-03-08 10:08 PM
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11. I've taught classes in Haiku. |
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Thu Apr-03-08 09:26 PM
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The Jungle is by Upton Sinclair and it says poverty sucks eggs.
(I am bad with Haiku :( )
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Thu Apr-03-08 09:30 PM
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4. aw, I think it's good... but then, it could be that I have no taste.. ^_^ |
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I just sent it to my librarian... we'll see what she says...
^_^
Thanks!!
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Thu Apr-03-08 09:33 PM
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5. Two one stanza haiku; one three stanza haiku. |
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Edited on Thu Apr-03-08 09:35 PM by 1monster
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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Thu Apr-03-08 09:40 PM
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6. These are wonderful! Surely we can find a book to fit them to! |
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Hmmm, how 'bout Rachel And Her Children?
Really, these are very fine.. thanks!
:yourock:
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Thu Apr-03-08 09:42 PM
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Thu Apr-03-08 09:52 PM
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If you have more things and I have less things than you it means not a thing.
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Fri Apr-04-08 11:06 AM
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Kinda reminds me of George Carlin's "Stuff".
:hi:
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Fri Apr-04-08 07:09 PM
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Grapes of wrath anew, dustbowl is in Iraq now, with poverty here.
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Sat Apr-05-08 12:52 PM
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14. oooh, very good, and very moving! |
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Sun Apr-06-08 03:08 PM
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We need Studs Terkel to explain what to do with a new depression
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Sun Apr-06-08 03:11 PM
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And really fits with current headlines...
I've sent this one on to the librarian, too.
thanks!
:applause:
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Sun Apr-06-08 03:48 PM
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I'm a huge admirer of yours and am happy I can give a little to you back!
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: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!
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Sun Apr-06-08 05:40 PM
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I usually gravitate to "resident" jerks...
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Sun Apr-06-08 05:51 PM
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:rofl:
As someone else posted today, a bit of masochism is helpful...
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19. Welcome to DU, maryf!! |
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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!
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Also, you can "bookmark" a thread, to come back to it.
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Mon Apr-07-08 05:22 PM
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I did bookmark this thread anyway, My DU huh? It'll be more like My DUH! ;) Thanks!
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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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Tue Apr-08-08 08:39 PM
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26. Jes' so you know..... your haiku is up on the library board... |
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with the Studs Terkel book.
It looks really fine.
:yourock:
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Thu Apr-10-08 05:32 PM
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I'm not only an exhibited artist, but a poet now!! lol! Thanks!
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