My Dear Readers:
Today, we commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-Day through the following war and peace haiku:
news of war
wrapped on a fish --
the smell lingers
Carl Seguiban
a machine gun --
in the middle of the forehead
a red flower blooms.
Saito Sanki
a drizzling rain ...
washing their blood
into their blood
Michael McClintock
sun dogs
on the winter horizon ...
another body count
Francine Banwarth
more peace talks …
a monal hen startled
by our approach
Sonam Chhoki
ceasefire --
a soldier comes home
wrapped in moonlight
Arvinder Kaur
war
memorial
no higher
than
a boy
Sandra Simpson
the road
to a war cemetery
morning glories
Chen-ou Liu
all that remains --
dreams of jungle,
sand, sky
Marilyn Hazelton
Normandy beach ...
this small white rock
washed clean
Anne LB Davidson
I would like to conclude today's post with the following remarks:
This is our reply to violence: to make haiku more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. Changing the world one haiku at a time.
-- Chen-ou Liu paraphrasing Leonard Bernstein
They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
-- Howard Zinn
Happy Reading
Chen-ou
Peace is easy
ReplyDeletewar is hard
army of sunflowers
Deleteagain peace becomes
war somewhere
Third Prize, 2016 Kusamakura Haiku Competition
Dietmar Tauchner
collateral damage . . .
ReplyDeleteall of us
"Collateral Damage"
Deletefor Susan Sontag
white poppy
pinned to her son's first suit
Remembrance Day
Inside the top drawer of her husband's wooden desk, there is an old photo album. It starts with pictures of toy trucks, toy soldiers, toy tanks, and other delights of boys from the neighborhood playing in the sunlight. It ends with the picture of a new military cemetery with a row of white crosses in winter mist.
Kokako, 24, April 2016
Chen-ou Liu
Note: First introduced by British pacifists in 1926, the white poppy is used as a symbol of peace and worn as an alternative to (or complement to) the red poppy for Remembrance Day.
ten thousand white crosses
ReplyDeleteten thousand shadows
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Moongarlic 4, 2015
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among the casualties animals plants earth
stardust ...
Deletespiraling numbers etched
into the cenotaph
NeverEnding Story, September 11, 2013
Chen-ou Liu
patriotism -
ReplyDeletethe smallest room
in the mansion
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Failedhaiku, April 2017
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the earth from space
our hopes and dreams
veiled in blue
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Australian Haiku Society Summer Solstice Haiku String on the theme of Peace, December 2017
winter sunlight
Deletereaches the frayed cover
of "War and Peace" ...
the white neighbor erects
a fence between us
Ribbons, 11:2, Spring/Summer 2015
Chen-ou Liu
with no regard
ReplyDeletefor the boundary fence
the old oak tree
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Chrysanthemum 18, October 2015
winter twilight
Deletecrossing the border
a child's shadow
4th Prize, 2016 New Zealand Poetry Society Haiku Competition
Chen-ou Liu
above borders butterfly migration
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Failedhaiku, June 2017
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ONEarth
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Failedhaiku, June 2017
border crossing every question loaded
DeleteModern Haiku, 45:1, 2014
Deb Koen
gun lobby cash for heartbeats
ReplyDelete.
Simon Hanson
handgun ban debate
Deletehe points his fist at me
in pistol fashion
Failed Haiku, 4:38, 2019
Chen-ou Liu
arms deal
ReplyDeletesealed with a handshake
and a bank transfer
Simon Hanson
more war news
DeleteI feed a stray cat
and flip
the overturned beetle
back onto its feet
Modern English Tanka, 1:1, Autumn 2006
Margarita Engle
random acts of kindness
ReplyDeleteripples on the pond . . .
Simon Hanson
rippling pond ...
Deletewhat's left
of his words
The Heron's Nest, 16:4, December 2012
Chen-ou Liu
them: object pronoun
ReplyDeleteuncouth utterance
more correctly: us
Simon Hanson