My Dear Friends:
Today marks 80 years since the formal surrender of Nazi Germany and the end of the war in Europe, although the war against Japan would continue until August 15 1945.
As Russia's war on Ukraine still rages in Europe, VE Day, Victory in Europe Day, reminds us all what’s at stake.
...the idea that this was all just history and it doesn’t matter now somehow is completely wrong.
Those values of freedom and democracy matter today.
-- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer
I would like to share with you the following haiku and tanka selected for reflections on the 80th anniversary of VE Day in the shadow of Russia's War on Ukraine:
poppies
again
& again
& again
the open fields & the sky
A A Marcoff
all that remains --
dreams of jungle,
sand, sky
Marilyn Hazelton
talking to the tree
outside the window
about rain, about the war
Marlina Rinzen
poppies at dusk
in my dream, he says yes
the boy lost to war
Richa Sharma
the silence
in an armless man's saluting ...
the sunlight shines
on 30,000 ceramic poppies
at the Tower of London
Chen-ou Liu
after the speeches
the honored dead return
to their silence
Cor van den Heuvel
new "peace" plan
fields of sunflowers
bend to the wind
Chen-ou Liu
army of sunflowers
again peace becomes
war somewhere
Dietmar Tauchner
watercolor poppies
blowing across the field . . .
why
is it so hard
to learn from history
Rebecca Drouilhet
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