Posts tagged Japan
From Death – New Life
起死回生 (kishi kaisei)
Literally: Wake from death and return to life
Meaning: To come out of a desperate situation and make a complete return in one sudden burst.
Its not until man
Has lost all that he has had
That he sees his life
For what his life is
Collection of good times
And of bad times
Woven together
By the love of family
And the love of [...]
Just Names To Us (Tanka)
Hiroshima now
And Nagasaki as well
Just names to us
From history book we read
As if but children’s stories
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Man Is a Speck of Ash (Tanka)
They float in the air
Ash specks: too small to see, count
Like mankind on earth:
Fellow man sees him like ash
Like ash, God counts, knows each one!
I think is appropriate given the incineration of so many in Hiroshima, and the facelessness of the victims of Fukoshima, they may be but specks in an ashcoud to the powers that be.
Cattle in Blissful Ignorance Graze Co...
The cows graze contented
Radiation seeps invisible
Grass tastes the same.
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Small Land – No Alternative (Ha...
No one should have to
Live where radiation lurks round:
Japanese have to.
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Life Reduced to Rubble (Haiku)
Houses, possessions
Lives once before, now no more
Debris scattered…
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Burning Bush (Haiku)
Hills ablaze above
And a burning bush spoke not:
It not being Moses.
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Ten Short Days (Haiku)
Ten days together
Short, sufficient to share love
Build coffin on death
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Japan
A Land of Tragedy
The 11/03 earthquake and subsequent tsunami was the second nation killer tragedy to hit the Japanese in the last hundred years, the potency showing in the failure of the two nuclear power stations that will have reprocussions for many decades to come.
Japan though has cone through it before, recovering from Hiroshima and [...]
Gods Guidance At the Eye of the Storm
Walked where others feared
Only knew after the storm
Which they had weathered.
Guided by the unknown hand
To safety – the hand of God.
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Obi Belt as Shoes
Her obi belt wrapped
Around child’s aching bare feet
Mothers love among
A sea of devastation
Wrought by mankinds raw hatred
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A Child Plays
Amongst all that is wrong
In these present troubled days
When adults of tomorrow worries
Among them, a child plays…
As if God does speak to us
The truth we then do know
That today’s trials they will come
And our troubles they will go.
We have seen a lot in our time
As have our forefathers before
And in a tim to come
Our descendan [...]
After Apocolypse
The never finished Cooling Tower 5 at Chernobyl
Reading an article posted below on how Chernobyl is been
retaken by nature in the absense of mankind (though a few
still remain as subsistance farmers) it is noticible the lack
of photos available to the outside world in thei era of digital
photography. Prehaps that will be my next trip!!! I [...]
Radition Will Not Kill The World
As men drive forward in fear
A machine bleep bleep’s a warning – slow!
Danger is where no danger does appear
Here is a place where no farther man should go.
Two dogs barking, race along a pavement
As cows contentedly graze as before in the fields
Nature survives, all beasts in bliss and content
Only mankind to radiations ravages d [...]
Health Warning in Japan
“Smoking kills”, he reads
Yet he smokes regardless
A quake survivor.
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Fukushima – Amy Winehouse (Haik...
Japan mourns its dead
The world mourns a tragedy
Amy Winehouse.
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