Haiku Corner
Created | Updated Sep 16, 2004
Toying
Guns rattle
Tearing skins
What glory is wrapped in Beslan siege?
Men in black
Detonates a spider bomb
What valour is priced in hijacking planes?
Words bleed
Stabbed by the butcher's knife
Words are trapped in stone wall cafes.
Underground metro
Theatre and opera
Throbs; children lie dead
In the valleys of kashmir.
New York, Moscow
Madrid, Mumbai
Are frozen helplines
Lost or found?
The baby on the ground
Her creche is a toyshop
Dealing in lead.
Bullets rip
The autumn sky
Still; What hands of terror
Did pluck the morning flowers?