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Readers Respond: Haiku: Poetic Thoughts About Arizona

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From the article: Wacky Phoenix Photos
A haiku is a short poem that follows a simple formula: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables. Anyone can do it! Here's mine:

Hot dusty Phoenix.
Brown desert yields gorgeous blooms
after winter rains.

OK, so I'm not the greatest poet, but it's just fun. Let's see what you've got! (Note: Submissions with profanity will not be published.) Share Your Haiku

Arizona self defense

Feds won't enforce law. The drug war ~ can't we stop it? Obama sues us.
—Guest Pete

az haiku

contemplate the stars only in darkness we see our place in the void
—Guest guest

From Manchester UK

My friend Jess moved there Climate good for her asthma Here autumn rains fall
—Guest Tim

arid-zona

Redbrown sand Beneath my feet. Noone knows me here . So Sheriff Joe shoots me dead.
—Guest wurger41

Ditat Deus

you don't speak english?/Don't let the sun set on you/In Arizona.
—Guest cattoy

No thanks

went to see a friend got racially profiled then can't visit again
—Guest breece

Ode to White Voters

AZ is for whites/ Tent City is for brown skin/ Vote for Sheriff Joe.
—Guest One of the Posse

Arizona Haiku

xenophobia brings out the worst in all of us show us your papers
—Guest dswagz

haiku

in this land of sand, no one can understand whyi am abolished.
—Guest me

haiku

long lost in myth, remembered now forever,home to my people
—Guest dick

Out of towners

It's dry heat, they say. But one hundred degrees is one hundred degrees.
—Guest Hexter

hmm.

Never quite been there. It sounds serene and quite nice, One day, I'll visit.
—Guest Howard Cruz

Arizona Haiku

We Do Not Welcome, Illegal Immigrants, Go home Mexicans.
—Guest LuRa

Desert Trail

East side of Tucson, head to Sabino Canyon. Hike the Phone Line Trail.
—Guest gus

AZ

Dry, brown desert land Fading into the mirror Finally leaving
—Guest Lsura

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