Darfur Equinox
–HaikuSonnet
it’s raining as I
sit here with a stash of two
buck chuck’s finest wine
we drink in paper
cups celebrating when the
sun sits directly
at the equator
a world away we ignore
rape, torture, murder
a movement of time
a Darfur fast march to death
ignored genocide
while we buy organic sprouts,
wine at Trader Joe’s
March 25, 2008 at 1:36 am
Whoa! I liked this when I first read it last night but it’s even stronger with that terrific and disturbing image, Scot.
P.S.: Don’t forget that I’ll be running the Brautigan haiku at Shotgun. Probably tomorrow.
March 25, 2008 at 1:46 am
thanks Rodger–I have this open over layed in bold white letters over this poem, but didn’t fit quite right here in the space.
March 25, 2008 at 2:56 am
Powerful, Scot… and outrageous. We spend a quarter of a trillion dollars in a Middle Eastern abomination while we whistle and turn our heads to genocide. I guess Darfur is just unfortunate that they have no oil. Very sad commentary about the richest nation in the world. As Peter, Paul and Mary said, “When will they ever learn?”
March 25, 2008 at 7:46 am
brilliant, not a word to many, it really hits home…….Bob is right, it’s all about oil, disgusting. Where did that image come from?
(And on a sidenote, how utterly bizarre, I wrote a poem yesterday about holidaying in Nepal and turning your eyes away from extreme poverty, drinking cold beer, I was going to post it today, maybe I’ll leave it a while
it’ll look like I ripped you off, or I could link to yours I guess, oh well, there’s only so much creativity out there 
March 25, 2008 at 8:44 am
Brilliant, all you skills turned outward, craft with purpose and passion and intelligence, active art alive in the world, burning, fantastic,
March 25, 2008 at 10:31 am
Jo
naw go ahead and post it—link would be cool. The image came from google/darfur death– you know people have been protesting this for 4-5 years but the bandwagon is not just there–I suppose oil is one of the political reasons–a few others.
March 25, 2008 at 10:32 am
Paul
Thanks Paul–I was wondering at first if this call was becoming cliche
March 25, 2008 at 10:33 am
Bob
you nailed it Bob– it is outrageous
March 25, 2008 at 11:54 am
Wow, that picture is the image I see everytime I see a jewelry commercial. I actually saw a billboard the other day expressing that there is a “new diamond” in town with a picture of a diamond with a cowboy hat. The billboard also stated that it was a “christian” operated store. Yea, christanity and diamonds…
I laughed my ass off.
March 25, 2008 at 8:36 pm
very powerful
March 25, 2008 at 9:20 pm
CGP
Thanks for reading and the kind comment
March 25, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Oz
that billboard is crazy stuff–wonder what that ad campaign cost?