haiku-usa

A blog devoted mainly to haiku and senryu and to thoughts about, and inspired by, haiku and senryu.

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Saturday, August 06, 2016

he did not know
that the skin of his face
had become radiant

(Exodus 34:29)

where do I
put the accent . . .
Hiroshima

Magyar said...: I was two.
__Later on in my infanthood, I remember being given a 'sight-toy' that was like a telescope as I remember. In peering toward a daylight through that toy, a growing mushroom cloud could be seen. _m; 3:55 PM
Bill said...: Thanks, M. We're both children of the atomic age, although I got there first. The bomb was dropped on Hiroshima just about as I was entering puberty.

By the way, August 6 is observed as the Feast of the Transfiguration by many Christians. The passage I quote in the first "haiku" is from a "transfiguration story" found in the Old Testament.

The second haiku is one I've posted here before around this time of year.; 7:15 PM
Crafty Green Poet said...: Very poignant haiku - we need to remember the dangers of nuclear warfare, sometimes it seems as though we are too close to forgetting (the UK debating renewing its nuclear submarines); 11:42 AM