Haiku/Senryu, Nr.02 — After George Floyd

Niiiiiice

Thank you. Stay well, Josh.

His name will go forever on in history books, the tipping point in this racial injustice.
Nicely penned sir.

Like Rosa Parks I guess - a shame that now such brutality is needed.

Indeed. Or in Langston Hughes' terms, the dream explodes.

I've not come across that phrase in Langston's writing but it's interesting that 'the dream explodes' carries the same notion of an undercurrent of frustrated hopes for a fairer experience of the world. And thank you for the RL too.

I wasn't quoting directly, but I haven't been able to get "Harlem" out of my head since this all began:

Harlem
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
What happens to a dream deferred?

     Does it dry up
     like a raisin in the sun?
     Or fester like a sore—
     And then run?
     Does it stink like rotten meat?
     Or crust and sugar over—
     like a syrupy sweet?

     Maybe it just sags
     like a heavy load.

     Or does it explode?

All the stronger for
the use of minimalism
to express such a weighty
subject...¡Bravo!
hugs, Ely

Thank you Ely, especially coming from an expert in short-and-to-the-point poetry   :))

All it takes is a few moments and a handful of words to keep a man and a movement alive in history for future generations to better understand.

It would be any poet's dream to write some words that carry through into the future for a better world  :))

This haiku says a lot in few words, the essence of brevity. It's an amazing thing to stand witness to momentous history, to feel it passing through your everyday life.

Like the Berlin Wall coming down in '89. I wasn't one of those who rushed over there to collect a bit of the wall 'live as it happened' but a friend in our men's group got a lump we sometimes use as a 'talking-stick'.

there is plenty of
fuel at the heart of quiet
overflowing verse

Thank you SweetOblivion for a nice Haiku reply  :))

Inspiration on the wings off a Haiku.

Thank you snugglebuck for running the comp too. Best, Josh.