Special Feature: Selected Haiku for Remembrance Day

My Dear Readers:

To celebrate 100th birthday on Remembrance Sunday. I would like to encourage each of you to take time to rethink the politics of war memory and commemoration through the haiku selected below:

news the war to end all wars rolling

Helen Buckingham
(Note: "The war to end all wars" was a term for the First World War. Originally idealistic, it is now used mainly sardonically)

taking me out of the war the war

H. Gene Murtha

news of war
wrapped on a fish --
the smell lingers

Carl Seguiban

after the bombing
ruins of a bridge
linked by the fog

Nebojša Simin

a drizzling rain ...
washing their blood
into their blood

Michael McClintock

war dead
exit out of a blue mathematics

Sugimura Seirinshi

ceasefire --
a soldier comes home
wrapped in moonlight

Arvinder Kaur

memorial day
the parade lengthens
by a new war

Gail Oare

army of sunflowers
again peace becomes
war somewhere

Dietmar Tauchner

the road
to a war cemetery
morning glories

Chen-ou Liu

shadow on the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier
Remembrance Day

Chen-ou Liu

Veteran’s Day
he salutes with his
missing hand

Edward Huddleston