Saturday, June 08, 2024
Is it a sigh?
Is it a sigh of
Deep sorrow the blue sky heaved?
Above the battle field
There is a white crescent moon
Blurred in the afternoon sky
青空のあなやるせなきため息か
戦の空の薄い三日月
Aozora no Ana yarusenaki Tameiki ka
Ikusa no sora no Usui mikazuki
from "Flowers and Bombs: Stop the Violence of the War Now!" by Kaoru Kobashi
I watched a trailer of a documentary film, "Where Olive Trees Weep."
Here is my tanka poem dedicated to the film and children in Palestine.
Oh, in Palestine
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Can not exist where
The trauma is never
Post in the occupation