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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
Cry Japan ,cry Your blood is contaminated, Radioactive dawn, radium The rock cannot resist, How could your spirit? Close your doors, your windows, You cannot stop the rain Which calcines your bones and your hands, Lock you into your house of paper. The tiny atom Has the biggest powers, Cry Japan, cry, Hiroshima is hardly a memory, Here the sky is going to fall for centuries, It will not go out any more, The air will not be breathable any more, The water will evaporate unconscious, of our spirit and rivers, liberty is not drinkable anymore. Cry Japan, cry Your children are condemned, The life is in balance in every street, Maintaining the energy It is the death which radiates, Informations succeed one another As indecent birds. Cry Japan cry, Tokyo is lost, The wind is a murderer, Tokyo loses its blood, its face turn down Under the flow of the radiations, Cry Japan, cry, Your tears cannot escape, Can put out nothing, Martyred country of naked hydrogen, I cried this morning By seeing your fate, By seeing these faces Taken by the wave, By the reality in fusion Of a country which we love. Cry Japan, cry, I think of you,of me, In your irradiated heart in your deserving silence here and forever. |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Yann, this impassioned cry out to Japan is very beautiful and paints a perfect picture of your compassionate heart. Thank you for your poem and for being Yann. Owl |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
... and, it is only a matter of time before similar incident(s) transpire elsewhere ... particularly the W. coast of N. America. [we geologists don't call the circum-Pacific belt the 'Ring of Fire' for nothing!] well said !! |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Dear Yann, it is indeed such a desperate, shocking situation, beyond anything that could be imagined and you say it so powerfully and with compassion. Your words ring and echo within our minds... and the heart just trembles. Love, Margherita |
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katahdin Senior Member
since 2010-07-01
Posts 1196ME. In the Shadow of the Mt. |
This was so macabre and desperate without hope. I pray that Japan can recover from their distaster. Kat =^..^= |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
The words seem harsh, but truth and reality can be that way...I lean toward compassion...following a disaster comes a new beginning...James |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
I can only hope that the world will learn something from this terrible disaster. So far things are not looking very promising. Ida |
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Bastet Member
since 2010-05-07
Posts 246 |
Yes, how can we not cry for this terrible tragedy. And for all the Japanese people who have to suffer once again the destructive power of nuclear energy. Very powerful and well expressed! |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. Please . . . . |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Yann, the passion with which you wrote this impassioned poem on the atrocities, tragedies, the horror, the devastation ~ is palpable. I felt every word. "Cry Japan, cry" ~ and the whole world is crying with you... I'm still finding it difficult to comprehend the magnitude of these three disastrous events. ~ the earthquake, the tsunami, and the nuclear threats. Vive la Japan! Linda |
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