blue-gray smoky haze
veils the city of angels
tearful angels choke
Day Twenty-five of Haiku Challenge:
Smoky Haze
Posted in Haiku
Posted by Bodhirose on February 24, 2011
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Paulo Guimaraes
/ February 24, 2011I am coughing reading this,lol! Get those angels some gasmasks! Cool haiku!
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Bodhirose
/ February 25, 2011I’m so sorry! How do the people living there manage? My brother is one of them!
Thank you, Paulo!
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Mike Patrick
/ February 25, 2011I’ve never been to California, but I’ve often seen the photos of smog. Don’t hey have a bunch of wind turbines around there? Why doesn’t the wind blow that smog clear into the Midwest?
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Bodhirose
/ February 25, 2011I’m sure the Midwesterner’s would love that!
Yeah, it’s pretty intense there isn’t it? Thanks, Mike. 🙂
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liv2write2day
/ February 25, 2011To answer your question Mike (as a LA-born girl back in the days when LA didn’t have smog) the wind turbines are out here in the Coachella Valley. Mountains surround Los Angeles and the inversion factor traps in all the polutants (it’s like a bowl) and the mountains keep the smog from getting out here. We have the same issue in Reno because of the Sierra Nevada but because of wind and lower population, it doesn’t even begin to compare. My science may not be right on target, but that’s what it’s like.
Your haiku says it all, Gayle.
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Bodhirose
/ February 25, 2011Thanks for your in-depth science lesson here, Victoria.
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vivinfrance
/ February 25, 2011It’s all down to topography – a haze bowl
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Bodhirose
/ February 25, 2011I think they’re located in a little valley type area that holds it all in there. 😦
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trisha
/ February 25, 2011this is so realistic Gayle. i remember our discussion on this topic. its brilliant.
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Bodhirose
/ February 25, 2011Yes, I remembered our discussion too. Now you can see a photo of just what it looks like. Horrible isn’t it!
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cloakedmonk
/ February 25, 2011Very poignant. They must be sad angels looking down on their city.
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Bodhirose
/ February 25, 2011Very sad.
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Becca Givens
/ February 25, 2011This is so true and so sad … ironic as well. 😦
Nice job with the prompt ;-)! Thanks for sharing ~ becca ~
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Bodhirose
/ February 25, 2011I know, city of angels–hacking and coughing! 😦
Thanks, Becca.
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Inside the Mind of Isadora
/ February 25, 2011I found this to have a little tongue in cheeck sound to it. I was smiling. There can be humor in tragedy. I have a sister who lives in California. Last time I visited I could barely see the sky. It was depressing. Very nice take, Gayle.
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Bodhirose
/ February 25, 2011I’ve never been out there but have heard from my two brothers how bad it is. One brother moved to New Mexico to escape the bad air several years ago.
That’s pretty serious–not healthy to live in that environment.
Thanks, Isadora! xoxo
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liv2write2day
/ February 25, 2011But it isn’t always that way…honest.
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Bodhirose
/ February 25, 2011I know it isn’t, Victoria. And of course it’s not all of California.
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Someone is Special
/ February 26, 2011Ha ha I like this pic a lot.. Loved it.. Please visit this page for the grand Celebrations, it starts here
Someone is Special
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Bodhirose
/ February 26, 2011So glad you did, SIS, thanks. xo
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Olivia
/ February 27, 2011Tearful.. why would pretty angels have to put up with something that we created or mis-created?
Lovely thought!
Love xox
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Bodhirose
/ February 27, 2011There is a large city in the state of California called Los Angeles. You may have heard of it–but the translation of it means “City of Angels”. That’s what I was writing about. There is a large amount of smoggy air in that city–that’s an actual photo of it.
Thanks for your comments, Olivia.
Love and hugs…
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Life: Between the lines
/ February 27, 2011Mother nature has to be sad, the destruction and the lack of caring, she is hurting, thanks for giving voice to the angels B. 🙂
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Bodhirose
/ February 27, 2011Yes, I think Mother Nature is hurting and the people here trying to cope with how badly we’ve run some things into the ground. Thanks, Lynnaima, for caring.
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Jamie Dedes, all rights reserved
/ March 1, 2011Truth! Sad … Nicely done.
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Bodhirose
/ March 2, 2011Thank you, Jamie. So very sad…
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apollorose
/ March 1, 2011The irony about Los Angeles is that it’s a “green city” but yet so polluted.
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Bodhirose
/ March 2, 2011The “greening” started a little late. Maybe it will begin reversing itself after a time.
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