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Sunday, February 10, 2013

HAIKU IN THE MODERN ERA

by Sandra Eisdorfer

(Photo: NASA Goddard)


    initiatives:
    immigration  gun control
    onto mindfulness

    choice: Roe at 40
    diplomacy  not bullets
    meditation soon

    Arab spring winters
    climate  changes coastlines now
    await inner peace


Sandra Eisdorfer was a university press editor (Duke, University of North Carolina Press, Oxford), now teaches writing classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke University.