Tag: death

I

as elephants brawl

and the foolish close their eyes

only the grass aches

II

monsters laugh with glee

when the preying buzzards swirl

o’er the barren shell

This haiku set was inspired by current times. Read into them what you will.

Thanks to FOWC and the prompt of “crazy” for which I substituted “foolish.” (Hope that’s OK with Fandango!)  And thanks to NaPoWriMo and their challenge to find an idiomatic phrase from a different language or culture and use it as the jumping-off point for your poem. I chose the following:

Kenyan proverb: “When elephants fight, it is the grass that gets hurt.”

Meaning: Fights between the powerful only hurt the little guy.