climatic changes
by R. Suresh Babu
a swarm of bombay locusts
raid the butterfly garden
My haiku are centered on my experiences as a teacher where I observe children’s behaviour in the classroom situations, science labs and school campus.
Our school is planning to create a butterfly garden. I had a small discussion in the class on the effects of global warming or climatic changes on butterflies, as butterflies are indicators of climate changes. This sciku was created after the discussion on the topic ‘The effect of climatic changes on the butterfly garden’.
Further reading:
Butterfly Gardening (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_gardening
How Climate Change Affects Butterflies by Astrid Caldas https://wisconsinpollinators.com/Articles/ClimateChange_7.aspx
Author bio:
R. Suresh Babu is a graduate teacher of English and a teacher counsellor in a Government Residential School in India. He is an alumnus of the Regional Institute of Education, Mysuru in India. His works have been published in Cattails, Failed Haiku, Wales Haiku Journal, Akitsu, Presence, Under the Basho, Poetry Pea Journal and Podcast, The Asahi Shimbun, World Haiku Series, The Mamba, Kontinuum, Haikuniverse, Cold Moon Journal, Chrysanthemum, tsuri-dōrō and The Mainichi. He is a contributing writer to the anthology, We Will Not Be Silenced of the Indie Blu(e) Publishing. He has done the art works for the Haiku anthology Bull-Headed, edited by Corine Timmer. You can follow him on Twitter @sureshniranam
Read more sciku by R. Suresh Babu: ‘Moonwalk’ and ‘Language’.