in the news
a twelve-year old girl
hangs herself after
constant cyberbullying
of her classmates

why cut your shade tree
because twice there I tried
to hang myself

Bullying

In memory of Seth Walsh, 13 years old, of Tehachapi, California and similar victims who were bullied before him. May their tribe decrease! (Los Angeles Times, Oct. 8, 2010). Like highway accidents during vacation times, there ought to be a continuing statistics reported nationwide of teenage suicides resulting from bullying.


schoolyard jungle
the bullied boy
commits suicide

World Haiku Review
Vol. 2, No. 2, January 2010

Lovers' cliff

lovers' cliff
a torn scarf totters
near the water's edge

Notes from the Gean
Vol. 2, Issue 1, June 2010