Back on the travelogue prompts, Niagara Falls from Phoenix Rising and Heeding Haiku gives us Water
Last night I watched a documentary about the world’s most extreme bridges, from the wind- rocked suspension bridge in Seattle to a floating bridge that sinks under the weight of a heavy truck, drowning cars already on the bridge; from miracles of simple engineering
joining communities by spanning a deep rushing river gorge in Nepal to the beauty of the viaduct at Millau in France, so high that it tempts adrenaline junkies to jump off it with parachutes; from the 5 mile long Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland, so terrifying that folk will pay 25$ each way for someone else to drive them across, to the abandoned bridge in Japan that is so rickety that it tempts adventureholics to take motor cycles and vehicles across the fragile rusty frame and rotten planks.
Water divides folk
separates communities.
Bridges re-unite.
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Need for water
damages communities
until it rains again.
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Business needs for water
alienate communities
fair shares for all.
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Unecessary
plastic bottled water
pollutes ad infinitum
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Sounds like an interesting programme – what channel? Great themes for the Haiku. Sally
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It was on More4
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Thanks for sharing these – they’re super! Love. the message in the last one.
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It ‘is’ that fair share thing, Viv. The ‘Them’ that have and ‘Those’ that do not. Throughout history.
A delightful post and meaningful haiku.
Just the other day I was watching a type of documentary where an Asian man (I forget the country) had in the dry spell had rigged two cables across a fjord so that in the rainy season when it was impossible to get to his favorite fishing spot he could tightrope walk the bottom cable while above his head he would hand over hand the top cable. Which had to be two or three hundred feet across. But he could only take about two kilos of fish that he caught back across safely to feed his family. He had to do this everyday during the rainy season.
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Impressive. Similar to the wire bridge in Nepal which enabled villagers to carry their produce on their backs to the market town and bring back supplies, saving a 12 mile trek down and up the mountains, there being no road.
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Those bridges soundquite incredible. Ilike the way they inspired your haiku
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There are some lovely bridges around.
As to your thought provoking question about water – I can’t decide on my answer. When things are going well water is a blessing and the sustainer of life, but when things go wrong it is quite the opposite.
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Nice shorts, V.
Sandra & I, on our trip last month to The Outer Banks (in North Carolina, commonly referred to simply as OBX) crossed the 23 mile-long Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel system. Unreal, esp the TWO sections where the bridge becomes the tunnel. I did the driving so that Sandra could fully enjoy the experience, and also because I was afraid she’d become enthralled by all that water on every side that she’d forget to keep her eyes on the road.
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Let her drive on the way back so that you can look!
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