Sirens echo
Tears stain a broken home
Another widow
A Haiku is a short, unrhymed Japanese poetic form that traditionally consists of 17 sounds arranged in three lines, with the first and third lines longer than the second. However, modern Western takes have seventeen syllables in a 5-7-5 pattern.
This haiku is about the Minneapolis shooting at Shoreline Plaza downtown that left 3 dead (including the shooter), 6 injured, and countless lives broken.
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