Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, LXXVII: "flares and blasts"
to the likes of Takahama Kyoshi (1874 --1959), a student of Masaoka Shiki and the editor of the most influential haiku magazine, Hototogisu, during WWII, who claimed that "haiku was essentially the art of "singing about flowers and birds ..."
Gaza's sky
grows red with flares and blasts --
with night news on mute
eyes closed and ears covered
a poet pens, skylark's trilling
FYI: The concluding line alludes to the iconic spring image/scene of the traditional haiku, such as
in the midst of the plain
sings the skylark
free of all things
Haiku, Volume 2: Spring, 1950, translated by R. H. Blyth
Basho
For detailed comments, see Poetic Musings: Skylark Haiku by Basho
