Haikus written in response to 2020 World Food Day Poetry Competition

World Food Day Oct 16, 2020...

We hunger for things
For freedom, respect...for peace
Why is food on list

Waking up hungry
Surviving not living means
Going to sleep hungry

Hungry children cry
Deafening is the clamor
We choose not to hear

Current tragedy
Capacity but no will
We could end hunger

Wake up and listen
Finding will will show the way
We will end hunger

Written by A.G. Kawamura, a third generation fruit and vegetable farmer and former Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (2003 to 2010).

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