War Haiku

sky

Pacifism.

l'insigne
sur sa veste de laborieux -
le fusil cassé

Marcel Peltier
(Belgium)

half torn
an antiwar poster flickering
needles of frost

Hiromi Inoue
Japan

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