Haiku is a short form of Japanese poetry. Haiku contain three lines and follow a 5-7-5 syllable pattern. Part 1 of the series can be viewed here and Part 2 can be viewed here.
“Three Haiku (and the glue, a haiku, too)”
fire gives life but fire
burnt up the life-giving trees…
eternal ashes…
woe, oh tragic past
no Phoenix rises
above this soot-ridden lot,
abandon hope, friend
memories strangle the mind
life becomes the dead
and the soot dances around
charred wooden corpses
the dead past reborn