blog action day 2008 poverty haiku

one october day
more than 7,000 sites
let's talk poverty


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18 comments:

MEDITERRANEAN KIWI said...

the most impoverished are those whose minds are not nourished adequately

Heidi Alfonzo said...

Awesome idea! I just posted my own entry! Thanks so much for bringing awareness on this issue! :)

kouji | haiku said...

thanks for the comment, mediterranean kiwi. :)

indeed. and physical nourishment as a child has an effect on the mind's development.

kouji | haiku said...

thanks for the comment, heidi alfonzo. :)

thought i'd post on it a few days early, in case other people also want to sign up. still preparing my post for october 15 itself. :)

Adventure girl wanna be said...

Wow! I have never heard of this. Thank you for sharing it. I will pass it on;)

Devika said...

You on your mission here :-)


see this when you have time:
http://devika-theunheardvoice.blogspot.com/2008/10/onlooker-turns-to.html

see again,
devika

J. Andrew Lockhart said...

interesting thought...

kouji | haiku said...

thanks for the comment, adventure girl wanna be. :)

nice of you to pass it on. :)

kouji | haiku said...

thanks for the comment, devika. :)

kouji | haiku said...

thanks for the comment, andrew. :)

Borut said...

In his Gulistan, the Persian classic, Sheik Saadi of Shiraz says in tales 36 of the chapter on the manners of dervishes (= the poor ones):

‘Like a bachelor before the women’s bathhouse
door, I face the table, hungry for food.’

From ‘The Sufis’ by Idries Shah, p.100).

kouji | haiku said...

thanks for the comment, borut. :)

an interesting image. :O

Ambo said...

This would be for tomorrow's event. Congrats!

kouji haiku said...

thanks for the comment, ambo. :)

indeed. still need to come up with haiku for tomorrow.

steven wilson said...

Blog action day is a great way to bring attention to things around the globe.

Blogger In Middle-earth said...

Tēnā kōrua Kouji and Mediterranean Kiwi!

I guess what's needed really is a balanced diet - food for thought?

:-)

Ka kite

kouji haiku said...

thanks for the comment, steven wilson. :)

indeed.

kouji haiku said...

thanks for the comment, blogger in middle earth. :)

food for thought indeed. :)

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