9-11 Remembered

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I have visited ground zero at different times after 9.11.01 and it is a sacred place. The air and color is different to my awareness. A cemetery where the business men, the money men, charge Americans to come in.

The wound       (Haiku)  2014

A deep gaping hole
newly covered with scar flesh
a cemetery

the reflective pond
the bright thirteen year old trees
the lost souls still there

the money-men charge
fees to visit our worst time
Ah, America!

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Beata Agustin

Date: 10/27/2023 2:07:00 AM

Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique haiku poetic style. Meanwhile, I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.

Debbie Guzzi

Date: 10/22/2014 3:50:00 PM

haiku has very precise specifications, comes from a Shinto & Zen Buddhist tradition both of which are shamanic in nature - though very poignant three lines verse #1 is at least 2 parts but it is not a real, factual observation it is in your imagination you can't have both a REAL hole and scar tissue #2 is 3 parts a haiku must only have 2 parts (regardless of the content) the pond reflects-trees planted thirteen years ago: mourners kneel (this would now be a haiku) subjective observation L & L

Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty

Date: 9/11/2014 8:31:00 AM

9/11 world saw the scariest reality. we are hollow men so "the money-men charge fees to visit our worst time Ah, America!" I pray tribute to the people who were murdered on that day. Humanity was murdered. Love TRISHA.

Trisha Sugarek
Date: 9/11/2014 8:43:00 AM