Say his name – – kyoka

Posted on Categories Poetry

say his name

say their names

hear their names

only voices will remove

the weight of injustice

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©️2020 Ontheland

Haikai Challenge #141 – – justice – – for black Americans killed by police officers

Image from NPR: “a decade of watching black people die”

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Published by Janice

My name is Janice.  I started blogging as Ontheland when I moved from Toronto to a rural area near Kingston, Ontario in Canada.  Over time I have found myself writing poetry, mostly in Japanese forms, such as haiku and haibun.  One of my deepest interests is the natural world: the joy of it and how we can look after it better.

8 thoughts on “Say his name – – kyoka”

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