Tanka poems against the war

 Do you remember September 11th in 2001? Or were you even born then?

I remember the day so clearly and how I feared what would happen and how the world would change.  

In 2021, when it was 20 years after the 9/11, I transcribed my diary entries from September 2001 to January 2002 onto my Japanese blog, Words for Peace.

Thanks to AI translation, everyone can now read my Japanese blog as well.

Read what was going on then and how the world was changed by the 9/11 and the following US's retaliatory attacks on Afghanistan in my diary.

■Diary entries in September 2001

http://flowersandbombs.blogspot.com/2021/09/

■Diary entries from October 2001 to January 2002

http://flowersandbombs.blogspot.com/2021/10/

A tanka poem of my wish then

On the blue full moon

Rabbits make tiny rice cakes

Bunny, give some to them ?

When you find hungry children

Looking up into the sky

お腹空かし夜空を見上げる児がいたら

月のうさぎよ餅を配れよ

O naka sukashi Yozora wo miageru Ko ga itara

Tsuki no usagi yo Mochi wo kubare yo

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

https://hanabaku.blogspot.com/