Famine

ethereal thoughts

float away up to the sky,

as my stomach growls

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a slice of stale bread,

corn grain is manna to eyes,

red-rimmed with ash sands   

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vulture eyes follow
child too weak to walk, snapshots
torturing mind's peace  

Kevin Carter, is a Pulitzer-prize winning South African photojournalist. His winning photo shows a heart-breaking scene of a starving child collapsed on the ground, struggling to get to a food center during a famine in the Sudan in 1993. In the background, a vulture stalks the emaciated child.

Carter was part of a group of four fearless photojournalists known as the “Bang Bang Club” who traveled throughout South Africa capturing the atrocities committed during apartheid.

Haunted by the horrific images from Sudan, Carter committed suicide in 1994 soon after receiving the award.

First part of my haiku relates to the prompt of Imaginary Garden with Real Toads - Ethereal 

Written for Few Miles Haiku Challenge 2012 for the month of February:   Day 18- Famine