MICHAEL DOM
Dead stumps
Bulldozer tracks
To plant monocrop and
Pay for your rice and tinned fish with
Food stamps
Palm trees
Replaced forests
Timber for paper cash,
Earth and water to muck for your
Birth right
Grass roots
Now choke at banks
Where father fished makau
His life was richness, yours is the
Paupers
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In the flow, Ed. This style of cinquain I recall was the Western response to short form poetry, haiku and its tanka origins.
Posted by: Michael Dom | 10 April 2017 at 04:47 PM
Almost haiku-esque, Michael.
Posted by: Ed Brumby | 08 April 2017 at 04:54 PM