Amadeo Mangune Mendoza

Haikus: in Gaza

1.

Evening, time again for
sleepless children to play 
hide and seek.

2.

In Gaza, it's
always Halloween, blood
as masks.

3.

I've sometimes wondered
Why good soldiers salute
Monsters.

Filipino poet and fictionist Amadeo Mangune Mendoza is a former literature instructor at the University of Santo Tomas where he earned an MA in Creative Writing. His poems have been published in Gargoyle Magazine, TLDTD journal, Oddball Magazine, Eunoia Review, Philippine Panorama, Philippines Free Press, Philippines Graphic, Sunday Inquirer Magazine and in Likhaan Journal of Poems and Short Stories, year 2001. His debut collection of English poems, February Rain, was released by Balangay Productions in September 2023.