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									<h1 class="entry-title">Hurricane Harvey &#8211; Healing Through Creativity, A Haiku Collaboration</h1>
				
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						Posted on <a href="http://spiderroadpress.com/hurricane-harvey-healing-through-creativity-a-haiku-collaboration/" title="8:44 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2017-09-18T20:44:35+00:00">September 18, 2017</time></a><time class="updated" datetime="2017-09-19T11:17:58+00:00">September 19, 2017</time> <span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://spiderroadpress.com/author/patriciafp/" title="View all posts by PatriciaFP" rel="author">PatriciaFP</a></span></span> 					</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
				
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			<p>Here in the Texas Gulf Coast region, one of the ways writers and poets are dealing with their experiences from the recent hurricane activity is by putting pen to paper and fingers to keys. As a press dedicated to encouraging the art of writing, the gift of self-expression, and the goal of collaboration, we took up the call to collect these cathartic words via a community project called &#8220;Hurricane Harvey &#8211; Healing Through Creativity.&#8221;</p>
<p>Below, in random order, are the incredible Harvey-inspired haikus that were cultivate by Texas Gulf Coast writers. Take your time to sit with them, ponder them, and walk a haiku in the shoes of someone that felt the effects of this devastating hurricane and tropical storm system. Thank you to all who submitted these bite-sized poems that pack such a powerful punch.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Water did not wash<br />
But left behind foul debris<br />
And our grateful hearts.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Rebecca Nolen<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Write your name in black<br />
On your arm with a sharpie<br />
Hurricane tattoo</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Holly Walrath<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">dark, dank creeping sludge<br />
slowly, insidiously<br />
redesigns my life</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Harriet Riley<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Impersonal hotels<br />
Can’t replace a water-logged home<br />
And memories now dissolved</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Melissa Huckabay<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Dogs sheltered from storm.<br />
In my care while owners grieve.<br />
Reunions are joy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Todd Galbraith<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Rising water stills<br />
lurking one inch from my door.<br />
You may not come in.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Leslie Archibald<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Destruction heartbreak<br />
Hope arrives on waves of love<br />
In flat-bottomed boats</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Celeste Budwit-Hunter<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Wind, rain, pouring down<br />
Much loss; homes, cars, memories<br />
Helping hands bring hope</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Fern Brady</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Unexpected guest<br />
who stays beyond its welcome,<br />
and no rabbit ears.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">David Welling<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Rain falls in torment<br />
Houston’s heart will overflow<br />
Sky, take back your tears</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">D. Marie Prokop<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lives swept with the rain,<br />
starting again from zero.<br />
United we heal.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Vanessa Caraveo<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The hurricane came<br />
But so did the rescuers<br />
Faith in humanity</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Virginia Kohl<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Disaster unfolds<br />
Counting the sodden stories<br />
Only my eyes wet</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">KL Forslund<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hurricane Harvey,<br />
we did underestimate,<br />
now rains its revenge.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Claire Hart-Palumbo<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Danger plus beauty<br />
like a spider in its lair<br />
nature, deceptive</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">John Cryar<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">People&#8217;s nerves are raw<br />
I cried over strangers&#8217; trash<br />
Will insurance pay?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sabrina Eads<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">Harvey. Drowned our song.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">Hope floats. Love pounds through the throng.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">We are Texas strong.</div>
<p style="text-align: center;">C.A. Kindred</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We shelter in place<br />
Here on Maroneal Island<br />
Will the rain please end?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lucie Shipp Tredennick<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We will get through this.<br />
Everything happens, you know<br />
you can start again.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Laurie Polomsky<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We are not drowned by<br />
Twenty-one trillion gallons<br />
We are Houston Strong</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Artemis Greenleaf<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hurricane harrrrrrvey&#8230;.<br />
What a cruel and heartless thief!<br />
To have stolen peace</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Ramona Harper<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sad flooded Islands<br />
Brave under the dark skies<br />
Pure Human love shone</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lisa Hogan<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Reservoirs filling<br />
anticipating islands<br />
of guilt or worse grief</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Jessica Holland<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">When winds whip wildly,</div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">Water wages wrathful war,</div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;">Writing wrenching wrongs.</div>
<p style="text-align: center;">J.C. Roberts</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Closer and higher<br />
Fear is measured by water<br />
Inches makes me sigh</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Leila Tualla<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">torrential downpour<br />
our sense of security<br />
washed away, downstream</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">T. Haven Morse<br />
~~~</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Deluge of forecasts<br />
tight smiles as wooden trains chug-<br />
taste fear and raisins</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Patricia Flaherty Pagan</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~~~</p>
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