Once a month, the folks at haikuworld.org put together a kukai, in which writers of English-language haiku write and submit haiku that follow specific prompts. Then, if you’ve submitted a haiku to either prompt (there are usually two), you are permitted to vote on the haiku other folks have written.

I submit my own haiku so that I may have the privilege of voting for other folks’. The voting deadline this month is tomorrow, and there were over 250 haiku to read and think about. I have now made my selections.

Some of my thinking about haiku has been shaped by the editors at Simply Haiku, this post by David Giacalone, and the writings of Robert Hass on the subject. I hope to be trying to write haiku for many years to come. It’s harder than it looks.

The thing I made on day five was…my voice heard.

I voted in Super Tuesday.

Today, I prayed. I prayed hard. And I have high hopes for all of mankind; not just the people in the country I live in. I don’t feel superior because I live in America. I am not superior. Superiority isn’t based on a country, a race, a gender. Superiority is what God has chosen as superior. It is principles, and sticking to them to the best of one’s ability that is superior. And for that reason I pray and continue to pray for change. For a change that will change the mindset of us in this country, and make us realize that there are other people, in different parts of the world, that matter. We don’t pick and choose who is better, whose lives are worth saving. We don’t risk killing people, and possibly be wrong. If we support a war, we better be sure they are the ones who commited the harm. If not, we better hold our fire… for if we don’t, God Heareth and Seeth all.

Today, I prayed that Barack Obama would gain momentum. He has. Thank God.

And let me add something. It isn’t the man that I seek. It’s the ideas that are offered. I also keep in mind, just like any person should, that no human being is perfect. Sometimes we must choose against ourselves and look at priorities. My priority is life. I pick life.

Today I did TWO things!

1.) I Voted!

2.) I taught a middle schooler about topographic maps using my knuckles.  She thinks I’m crazy but she’ll never forget what a topo map is!  (I never did anyway, and this is how I learned it!)

                     So, did ‘ya vote yet, or what?

I mean No Disrespect Towards Hillary or Barack.

 We Need Them Now To Clean Up After The Bushies.

   Vote Early; Vote Often.

                            PS -    We Won !

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