Climate Haikus

An experiment in narrative sticking points

Eden flammable
Adam flicks ciggies, dickish
Leave your belongings!

“In a departure from more information to less, I’ve been looking for words that fit a far more constrained space for storytelling. Haiku is the epitome of brevity that evokes new, multi-dimensional ideas with just three lines of 5-7-5 syllables. It’s a creative, immersive demonstration of language defeating a monotone status quo.”

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Syllaiku is a Bank of Nature experiment that — with only a few words that join (Kintsugi-style) culture, logic, philosophy and abstracted creativity — tries to spark curiosity otherwise lost in wordier efforts to explain our proposal.

What’s yours is mine, child
Depreciating assets
Embryos revolt

Rules of the Syllaiku game:

1. Write 5-7-5 syllables in three lines

2. Use logic premises A and B plus conclusion C

3. Rejoin in golden ways what can be reconnected

4. Defend creative license to trump all other rules, if the message lands

5. Write yours in the comments.

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Default. Denatured
“Tax ‘em 2C, Collections!”
Deadbeats evicted

Maslow level 2
Game’s snakes extort, ladders steep
Safety costs a splurge

Risk? ‘Morrows unknown!
Actuary eight-ball. Hark!
”Skip-to-thee-spoilers!”

Infinity pools
Tailings leach ate time, seeping
Market solutions

Loose skin in the game
Golden anticipation
Futures bought with trust

Pranayama in
Moolah manna I-ka-ching
CO2 exhaled

UV heated greens
Glamorous basement swimming
Retire Florida

Cooking up spreadsheets
Speculative food safety
Anaphylaxis

Seesaw: law or lore?
Time-travelling consequence
Prudence flux. Killer

Caught in plastic sheets
Submerged, scalpel found in wreck
#Climatehope breathes free

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Bank of Nature is written by Ian Edwards.

WE WILL BEAR WITNESS to this moment in history. Tell your story.