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Anti-War Haiku Wall

Carmen Sterba (Japan)

Recently I have joined a silent protest in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo against any war in Iraq by carrying a sign with haiku rather than a slogan.

These are the haiku:

talk of war
the fresh slate of the new year
already sullied

Carmen Sterba (USA/Japan)

charred bodies
of women and children
friendly fire

suhni (USA)

Carmen Sterba

 

Carmen's links

bushwar the alternative to fixing things at home

telling again my ominous thoughts about president bush

after the war even the deerhunter stops shooting

bodycount your people for our people

eye for an eye the way of more than one country

plans to visit the 'Holy Land' I urge my son not to go

the poor are ignored when rage takes over the hills and valleys

'the world would be better without Hussein' and who comes next?

again the people take to the streets memories of another war

 


haiku for The 36th A-Bomb Memorial Day Haiku Meeting, 2002:

shadows gather -
a college student carries
an anti-war poster

pacifist teacher -
a lesson on Sadako
and one-thousand cranes

 

 

Copyright Carmen Sterba, 2003