Tanka poems against the war

 Twenty years ago today, the US president Bush declared war on Iraq based on the false evidence.

Somewhere on the earth

Is bombed hard this morning

Here as usual in

All innocence my dog nags

Me to take him for a walk

地球上のどこかに爆弾降る朝も

犬は無邪気に散歩をせがむ

It was when my late dog was one year old, and small peach blossoms were blooming in my little garden. Twenty years later now, I have lost both of them.

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In 2023, Japan has a plan to buy 400 Tomahawk missiles. For what? They are such old and slow missiles which killed tens of thousands of vulnerable children and citizens in Iraq in 2003 and 1991.　I don't want my tax money to be used to prepare for an absurd war. 

Are you ready, kids?

Jump onto a cruise missile

Buckle up and hang on

'Cause we're gonna take a

Sightseeing trip to the full moon

さあみんな巡航ミサイルにまたがって

月に向かってクルーズしよう

The tanka poems and the drawing from "Flowers and Bombs: Stop the Violence of the War Now!" by Kaoru Kobashi

https://hanabaku.blogspot.com/

Twelve years ago, in March, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors were severely damaged due to the great tsunami and earthquake. The three reactors were out of control and what I could do was just pray to get the melted-down nuclear fuel rods cooled down somehow.

Guanyin Bodhisattva! 

Take your water bottle and

Pour water into 

The uranium burning in 

Decay heat out of control

水瓶の水流し込め観世音

崩壊熱に燃ゆるウランへ

Guanyin Bodhisattva at Hase Temple, Nara