Bill Kenney has been writing haiku since a month before his seventy-second birthday. His work has appeared in various online and print publications and anthologies. He is one of the poets featured in A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2007).
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Newspaper: after reading the war news, away from my hands I can scrub the ink’s smudge, but in my thought the stains remain. [Ed Mark-. what happend to your -war news- senryu, the Mule etal]
clever and poignant ku…
Good political senryu!
Pontius Pilate came to my mind when I read this good senryû. We are alle a bit like Pontius Pilate who washed his hands before the crowd and…
Today wars, terrorism, hunger…
and we
wash our fingers (hands)…(and in my mind this ink turns from blue to red…)
Newspaper: after reading the war news, away from my hands I can scrub the ink’s smudge, but in my thought the stains remain. [Ed Mark-. what happend to your -war news- senryu, the Mule etal]
How I wish life was this simple, though!
Good one and very subtly caught.
_kala
This one will be hard to forget, Bill. Very good.
Collin
bill,
yes! good one!
dark mr,
here it is, i found it on the wall of the wood shed…
war news
our new mule stands
in the same spot
Excellent, Bill!
Its hard to write about war without sounding trite. You manage it so well. It feels original and universal and I wont forget it in a hurry.
Bill, this has many layers,
as your work so often does…
excellent!
:)
Lary
Thanks for those comments, and, Ed, that’s one fine ku.
endless red river
from deep wound–
the country divided