Wonderfully done – love the juxtaposition – the anxiety/uncertainty that is created by climate change, especially the impact on the younger generations, coupled with the love, security and care of the father for the child, how the child must feel safe and protected. So many levels to this ku…
I do see that children and youngsters really enjoy these protests and rallies, and I guess they'll still rely on a parent or parents despite the best corporate efforts.
climate change rally
a toddler secure
on his father’s shoulders
Wonderful! Great image and appreciated the use of 'secure' in our 'insecure' world of climate
change and the support and security of family. Living in No California with our terrible wildfires the last two weeks (and last several years) and its human and environmental destruction, climate change is no longer an abstraction but a living reality which we're are feeling in our heart & bones.
I categorize haiku and one major category is what I call, ECE, early childhood education. This is an ECE poem. Lovely and powerful. Good parenting is one of the most important keys to our future as a whole. This father is a good dad.
Very thought provoking poem. Taking all that has been said before, then adding the actual action of lifting the child into where one would think the purist air exists at the rally. In doing so bringing in a further thought of the chemicals we roam amongst in our daily lives. Great poem for the moment.
November 4th, 2019 at 10:51 am
Wonderfully done – love the juxtaposition – the anxiety/uncertainty that is created by climate change, especially the impact on the younger generations, coupled with the love, security and care of the father for the child, how the child must feel safe and protected. So many levels to this ku…
November 4th, 2019 at 11:09 am
Secure? Oh, the irony!
November 4th, 2019 at 12:53 pm
Nice!
Bears the Testimony…
Fragile Future,
On his shoulder.
November 4th, 2019 at 3:47 pm
I do see that children and youngsters really enjoy these protests and rallies, and I guess they'll still rely on a parent or parents despite the best corporate efforts.
climate change rally
a toddler secure
on his father’s shoulders
—VANESSA PROCTOR
And of course in chaos there is order. :-)
Great senryu!
Alan
November 4th, 2019 at 9:52 pm
Mr. Summers thank you very much.
There is remarkable point to ponder upon in this statement:
?children
and youngsters
enjoy
protest and rallies?
And thank you dear Vanessa Proctor for capturing this wholesome moment…
November 4th, 2019 at 10:40 pm
Wonderful! Great image and appreciated the use of 'secure' in our 'insecure' world of climate
change and the support and security of family. Living in No California with our terrible wildfires the last two weeks (and last several years) and its human and environmental destruction, climate change is no longer an abstraction but a living reality which we're are feeling in our heart & bones.
November 4th, 2019 at 11:09 pm
I categorize haiku and one major category is what I call, ECE, early childhood education. This is an ECE poem. Lovely and powerful. Good parenting is one of the most important keys to our future as a whole. This father is a good dad.
November 5th, 2019 at 7:38 am
Very thought provoking poem. Taking all that has been said before, then adding the actual action of lifting the child into where one would think the purist air exists at the rally. In doing so bringing in a further thought of the chemicals we roam amongst in our daily lives. Great poem for the moment.
November 5th, 2019 at 5:32 pm
Thanks for your kind words everyone. Much appreciated!