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storms getting stronger

windsong of old mother earth
her global warning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winner, Writers Network haiku poetry contest and accepted for publication online, 2006. Read on Radio Sarawak, 17 Jan 2007 and at Yunnan University, April 2011.

 

 

 

rain falls on fishpond
little fish need not worry
soon be warm and dry

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected as a 'Poem of the Week' on ABCtales in 2005. Read at Yunnan University, March 2011.

 

 

 

fallen leaves long gone
cold sun falls on silent stones
never ending rows

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accepted for publication online

Sol Magazine Feb 2004.

 

 

 

external links

 

ABCtales

 

Sol Magazine

 

Yunnan

University

 

Radio

Sarawak

REDfm 91.9

 

 

 

 

rain on lotus pool
blooms of perfect beauty spring
from muddy water

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cherry-picked by the editors at ABCtales, 2004. Read at Yunnan University, June 2005.

 

 

 

yunnan in the sun
where people are warm in the
land south of the clouds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read at Yunnan University

June 2005.

 

 

 

another tree falls

still quiet in the forest

no one there to hear

 

 

 

drops of acid rain

sad tears of old mother earth

fall now on bare ground

 

 

 

ozone layer shakes
warm wind blows out of mankind
out of woman too

copyright colin w campbell  

 

 

 

mayfly must hurry

got so much to see and do

and life is so short

 

 

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