My Haiku Pond - 4th Annual Haiku for Change Event 2019

Organized by Michael Smeer, My Haiku Pond.

Edited by Michael Smeer

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This Haiku for Change Event was held from September 21st through October 1st, 2019.

Welcome to the 4th Annual Haiku for Change Event (2019) in conjunction with 100 Thousand Poets for
Change (Global) 2019.

PROMPT: Write only 1 NEW haiku (or senryu, haiga, or photo-haiku) on 'CLIMATE CHANGE'! Make the
world a better place by writing some food for thought...

This year, all entries have been included in the Haiku for Change Event Anthology, which will be posted
on the 100 Thousand Poets for Change website, and archived by Stanford University as part of their
program to document the 100 Thousand Poets for Change movement and community.

We wish to thank everyone who has participated in this important event series.

Fondly,

Michael Smeer & the MHP team

  
© My Haiku Pond, 2019.

Copyright of each individual poem remains with the author.

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the water will rise

ever so slowly over
our denying heads

Heather Crowley

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above the spider a foot and a plea

Steve Smolak

open cast mining

seeking spring
in weather report

Monalisha (Cherry A.)

with the rosemary,

I summon thee, my old Earth...
just a remembrance...

David Bollat Spillari

swarming their way

through concrete heat
people in metal boxes

Dejan Pavlinović

why does
my grass look gray ​—
cement factory

Amika ​(submitted ​by ​Tomislav Maretic)

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a truck stops -
an old fridge discharged
into the brook

Zvonko Petrović (submitted ​by ​Tomislav Maretic)

earth opens
the door of hell -
valley of tears

Evica Kraljić

issue of our time

climate change brings mass chaos
rewrite the headline

Heather Seelbach

melting glaciers,
wailing
polar whales

Drago Štambuk (submitted ​by ​Tomislav Maretic)

red sunset haze

oppressing the night time air
too hot for breath

Cindy VanOstrand Blair

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blazing skies …
the end of days
gets closer

Marion Clarke

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for the first time

in the winter garden
a lark

Małgorzata Formanowska

climate changing...
influence on the culture
of all gardens

Pat Geyer

in black plastic bags —

garbage at the curb awaits
Sunday pickup trucks

Gillena Cox

generation gap
fragrances of all flowers
in cans and bottles

Indra Neil Mekala

hostile takeover
we lose our house
to rising sea levels

Susan Burch

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hot even in December

Santa Claus is confused...
global warming

Rosa Maria Di Salvatore

Sunday's silence —
snow covered the multicolored
dumping ground

Tomislav Maretic

a seagull
smells of oil
the last flight

C​armela Marino

blue beach
me and plastic bottles
floating

Eva Su Starry

iron-grey drops
only a bird has
learned to fly

Maria Concetta Conti

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autumn rain —
a slight trickling
of memory

Mauro Battini

acid rain
fills the artist’s cup
painting new worlds

Erin Cobb-Castaldi

invisible greed
a bee curls up
decides to die

Mark Gilbert (submitted by Mark Zee)

climate schizofrenia —
putting the plants
in a greenhouse

Hassane Zemmouri

the burning question in mind acid rain

Billy T. Antonio

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a legend says
once upon a time there was
water for everyone

Franjo Ordanić

Photo: Sandra Šamec

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industrial town
sky full of stars
in children's bedroom

Tomislav Sjekloća

climate change placard

a little girl learns to spell
environment right

Patsy Turner

sliding glacier...
the weight of denial
of men in power

Marina Bellini

at the dump
recycling piles of paper
exhaust fumes swirl

Dianne Duffy Moritz

white Christmas
last time fifteen years ago

Dubravka Šćukanec

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April snow
red tints
blood of climate

Abiskar Bharati

plastic bottles
knocking on the door
rain flood

Anthony Q. Rabang

morning news
I spread on a slice of bread
an ape's scream

Sanela Pliško

boiling mad the oceans

Roberta Beach Jacobson

all the nest eggs

by the sea
drowning

Pandy Benson

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a starless sky
over the industrial area —
summer solstice

Giovanna Restuccia

trenches
of the white war —
global warming

Angiola Inglese

a glacier's lament
while it's slipping away —
tears of a girl

Margherita Petriccione

morning haze
the cock
coughs three times

Gail Oare

acid rain...
father's black car
returned white

Taofeek Ayeyemi (Aswagaawy)

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global warming ​—
another battle starts
for the middle Earth

Cristina Angelescu

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even the stars

lost in the smoke
forest fires

Marilyn Ashbaugh

a night in May!
how many thousand termites
die flying to the moon?

Dennis Formento

a warm wind blowing

whitecaps on the fallow fields
the ice is melting

Karen Obermiller

between plastic waves

our fish die —
rainbow

Maria Teresa Sisti

forest fires...
a tree with empty nests
overlooks a barren land

Neelam Dadhwal

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UN climate summit
US President
a no-show

Christa Panday

whirring chainsaw
the last banyan tree
with our initials

Anitha Varma

smog —
even the blossoms
bow their heads

Corine Timmer

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in Greenland
some rocks appear —
Milky Way

Dennys Cambarau

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