Haiku On War And Peace
8:15 a.m.
August 6, 1945 —
frozen in time
Sadako Peace Day —
we gather to remember
the innocent children
Nuclear arrogance
wreaked havoc in the Pacific —
remembering
Vietnam —
we both chose not to fight there
why kill peasants?
Lieutenant Calley
slaughtered peasants at My Lai —
that’s the way war rolls
The Vietnam War
left a stain on America —
remember My Lai
Eighteen years ago
the U.S. invaded Iraq —
shock but not awe
Israelis and
Palestinians at war
yet again
It is the children
who suffer most in war –
stop the shooting
Nuclear arrogance
threatens our very future —
time to wake up
Nuclear weapons
if something can go wrong it will –
no one is perfect
Nuclear roulette —
a gun pointed at the heart
of humanity
War with sticks and stones,
spears, swords, bows and arrows, bombs —
where does progress end?
It was nothing like
Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow —
still we shivered
So many reasons
why war is wrong – peace
is for the people
Throughout history
there has been far too much war —
when will we ever learn?