Sustainable Cherry Hill organizes a yearly Earth Day Festival gathering community organizations, schools and residents together to celebrate their community and talk about issues of sustainability. Guerilla Haiku was invited by organizers this Saturday to train a group of high school volunteers to get fest-goers writing haiku about Earth Day. Many exciting things happened;
A) The high school Agents of Haiku fully embraced their mission (to get EVERYONE to write at least one haiku) and approached as many people as they could find thereby initiating conversations with and between 100s of strangers, impressing me and all people lucky enough to interact with them with their enthusiasm, commitment and positive energy.
B) Haiku were written in Turkish, Bangladeshi, Italian, Spanish, French, and Japanese making the polyglotism of the Cherry Hill community impressive indeed.
C) People embraced the Festival’s purpose and wrote many haiku of an environmental ilk!
D) An enormously good time was had by all!
Over 300 total haiku were written through the course of the festival, and a sampling of them are available below for your viewing enjoyment! Thanks to Sustainable Cherry Hill and our amazing Agents of Haiku for a lovely day of celebration!
- The Haiku Mistress with Cherry Hill Agents of Haiku
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- Storm troopers are cool - Boba Fett is the coolest - Jar Jar Binks is lame
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- A Disney legend - he comes from beyond greatness - The wonder of Walt
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- Change begins with you - do the best to make it through - because we NEED to!
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- Pillar of strength, hope - Character Education - It should be innate
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- One rose is blooming - Yet another is wilting - Sacrifice is made
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- Have a good Earth Day - Reduce Reuse Recycle - WE can save the world!
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- We have never flown - but we see planes in the sky - which makes us like them
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- The earth is special - Like a Friend, their always there - So have a nice day!
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- in Turkish!!!
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- Replace your windows - Save energy and money - Don't waste resources
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- Peace on Earth today - Reduce Reuse Recycle - Make it your goal now!
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- Warm day of delight - Kids laughing in the sunshine - Celebrating earth!
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- Aaron and Nikki - Gene and Sandy share the earth - come join us today!
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- The Earth is import - ant in many ways , because - it helps us today
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- Team Melissa tags a volunteer with a haiku!
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- water is bubbling - we take it so for granted - until it ceases
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- Red Dead Redemption - won the game of the year this year - Best game ever made.
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- We shine best as one - Therefore let's shine together - And make earth greener!
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- The sun is very - bright I am warm by your light - joy, love and delight.
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If you want a complete set of photos, check out the Flickr album HERE!