War cemeteries
Quanto freddo - anche nelle tombe i soldati son messi in fila
Yamazaki Hisao (1927 - nel 1999 era ancora in vita)
trad. di Araki Tadao e Ettore Corò, Empirìa 1999
Such coldness even in their graves soldiers are lined up
trans. Moussia
"Memory for ever!" on the sunken grave fresh grass
Olga
USA
Yesterday was poppy day here in New Zealand which raises money for war veterans and commemorates the wars where Australian and New Zealand forces fought alongside each other. In the bloody fields of the First World War there was a time of huge loss of young lives. Growing in those fields were seas of wild poppies. Anzac day does not glorify war but rather asks we all think about the high price paid for all the people involved.
as shells scream blood soaks the earth ~ a sea of red poppies
Craig McLanachan
"Nam memorial a rusted peace button taped over a name
- John J. Dunphy
(originally published in Modern Haiku XXX:3)
dirt--- the memorial of the innocent
r.wilson
Red as a poppy Maple leaves fall on the memorial
Angelika Kolompar
BC, Canada
memorial wall– all those summers these young men missed
Alegria Imperial
BC, Canada
white grave markers, flags row after row after row 'just wars' kill, too
Catbird 55 USA
war memorial timeworn names collect snow
mémorial de guerre les noms effacés par le temps retiennent la neige
Allen McGill
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
war memorial snow has almost covered the poppy wreaths
Mark Holloway
UK
snow falling on the headstones . . . just and unjust wars
Bill Kenney
USA
passing the war memorial suddenly lonely
Mike Rehling
USA
All Souls Day a broken rose at the war memorial
John J. Dunphy
USA
war memorial an eagle descending on the playground
Bill Kenney USA
Vukovar museum -- young faces keep on defying the death
poppies... swaying between the trenches, once more...
between a candle and its flame in the marble names shivering
Tomislav Maretic
Croatia
at the Cenotaph in the silence of remembering a cell phone rings
Dina E. Cox
Canada
strewn about the war monument piles of broken branches
Paul David Mena 2012-03-16