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. r a n t s • & • r e f l e c t i o n s • . . . . haiku is poetry, here in Western style, with 17 syllables, on three lines: 5.7.5

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twenty-two charges ~ crime: wantonly publishing ~ free bradley manning
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Posted by Don Shall at 6/22/2013 08:50:00 AM No comments:

Labels: Bradley Manning, Free Bradley Manning, haiku, hero, police state, publishing, want only, wantonly publishing, whistleblower

new.vermont.hero • a.man.on.a.tractor

NO police state ~ mighty tractor of justice ~ saint roger pion

Posted by Don Shall at 8/20/2012 02:24:00 PM No comments:

Labels: a man on a tractor, civil disobedience, courage, haiku, hero, justice, non-violent civil disobedience, police state, Roger Pion, tractor, tractor of justice, Vermont, VT

RIP :: Vaclav Havel

havel insisted ~ "truth and love must prevail ~ over lies and hate"

Posted by Don Shall at 12/20/2011 11:46:00 AM No comments:

Labels: courage, Czechoslovakia, dissident, haiku, hero, inspiration, integrity, mensch, not a single shot, RIP, soul of the nation, truth and love, Vaclav Havel, velvet revolution

RIP :: Vaclav Havel

not one shot fired ~ power of powerlessness ~ soul of the nation

Posted by Don Shall at 12/18/2011 11:02:00 AM No comments:

Labels: courage, Czechoslovakia, dissident, hero, inspiration, integrity, mensch, not a single shot, RIP, soul of the nation, Vaclav Havel, velvet revolution

czechoslovakia leads in mourning

playwright president ~ r.i.p. vaclav havel ~ wins velvet revolt

Posted by Don Shall at 12/18/2011 10:50:00 AM No comments:

Labels: courage, Czechoslovakia, dissident, haiku, hero, inspiration, integrity, not a single shot, RIP, soul of the nation, Vaclav Havel, velvet revolution

taking a stand

r.i.p. neighbor ~ "know these savages will pay" ~ tried to stop looters

Posted by Don Shall at 8/15/2011 07:38:00 AM No comments:

Labels: arson, Britain, burn the village, England, haiku, hero, incitements, initiation, insurrection, let this happen, London, looters, made this happen, met, racism, riots, who benefits?

mom and dad just howled

thank you for all ~ wonderful family time ~ dear lucille ball

Posted by Don Shall at 8/13/2011 09:10:00 AM No comments:

Labels: comedy TV, culture, entertainer, family time, haiku, hero, Lucille Ball

reactor heroes

in their haz-mat suits ~ inside collapsed reactors ~ workers dropping dead

Posted by Don Shall at 5/18/2011 06:21:00 AM No comments:

Labels: dead, death, earthquake, haiku, hero, japan, nuclear, radiation, tsunami

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Don Shall: Peoples' Republic of Burlington, , Vermont, United States

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A few words about this haiku stream

☞ Since early February 2011, starting with the wave of uprisings leading to the fall of the dictators of Tunisia, Egypt, recently Libya, and soon Syria, with yet more to follow – in what was first called the Arab Spring, and now gone global with OccupyWallStreet and its echoes – I have been closely following these, and more local, Current Events. ∞ I have been harvesting phrases from the full range of media and content outlets. ∞ These haiku are 99% built from actual quotes of news-makers, reporters, eye-witnesses, analysts, observers, iconoclasts and occasional quacks.