Came across a themed haiku contest and though I didn’t enter, the theme stuck with me and played on my mind. So based on the idea of cities in a dystopian future, here are five interlinked haiku:
A building towers
Nuclear-proof above the dust
Council sits within
A multi-storey
city of lead-lined burrows
Down, down, deeper down
The old opulence
means nothing to those who have
never seen the sun
Two cockroaches fight
to the death there is nothing
above ground to eat
In my day the sky
was blue Granddad what is sky
some day I’ll tell you.
siobhanmcnamara 
The old opulence stanza is my favorite. I really like this.
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I am teaching a college level course on using photoshop and would like to have the students illustrate your distopian haiku’s as a project. They would give you credit as the author and the work would not be sold. Only used for instructional purposes. Your haiku are so vivid and wonderfully evocative I would appreciate your permission. Thank you! Michelle
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Thank you for your lovely comments Michelle, you are very welcome to use the haiku for your class
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