Haiku Postcards to the President: AWP 2013 Edition

Haiku Postcards to the President: 

AWP 2013 Edition

 

If you were at AWP this year, you may have stopped by Split This Rock's table at the bookfair and encountered one (or all) of the smiling faces above. These are a few of our staff and volunteers who may have urged you to write a haiku postcard to President Obama.  We've read through them all and pulled the most inventive, the most powerful, the funniest. Read them below! And thanks to all those who shared their voices with us.

The whole campus cheered

The night you were elected

We watched. Eyes wide-tears.

-          Lianne McCray

The silence before the drone

And the heavier silence

Forever After

-          Corrie Etter

Snow blows in the wind

Empty apartment windows

Dusty with promise

-          Lyle Daggett

Birds fly high over

The city. Snow muffles loud

Mouth voices below

-          Dr. Virginia Gilbert

Split the rock and hear

Musical notes rise to

Awaken your sleeping soul.

-          Satya Plalaparty

On the subject of

Drones – focus on the bees, sir,

Not on weaponry.

-          Liz Lanedale

Mr. President

Take congress out for Tacos.

Everything will change.

-          Kate Eber 

The love of country,

Honor, pride, justice, and peace

Collide a rainbow.

-          Yolanda J. Franklin

Yes humanity

Yes peace yes music of love

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

-          Dawn Lonsinger

Be your conscience. Don’t

Bow under the weighted snowfall

Of everyone’s gaze.

-          Andrew Kozma 

Because I love her

I want to marry her lips

Legalize our kiss

-          Leigh Phillips

Holes on highways leave

Broken bits of gravel in

The craks of my skin

-          Nicole Byrne

Education for

Our youth, or do you intend

To make drones of them?

-          Pages Matam