Daily Paper Prompt #42: Haiku

thousands of nightmares
evil men darken the sky
no peace this morning

  

Today's prompt is to write a simple haiku. 5-7-5 pattern.

5 syllables

7 syllables

5 syllables

my younger daughter's index card for july 4th seems appropriate again

Please feel welcome to create a haiku and post it in the comments. My haiku= simple words that came to my mind when I thought about the moments watching the unthinkable on tv the morning of 9/11/01, the planes flying into the towers, the confusion, the smoke, the sadness.

Comments

[QuinnCreative]

There's no unsacred/ land; no, just sacred land and/Desecrated land.

[Wendy @ the Late Start Studio]

world changed forever
eyes still burn with the image
nothing is the same

[Lorinda A. Henry]

Art talk that morning/then watching the sky shatter/clouds fall in the streets.

[erica]

throw away the key
there's no turning back this time
regretting nothing