Monday, 4 May 2020

Candles On the River

Candles On the River
By stark Genbaku Domu
under Aioi-bashi bridge
(where the Little Boy still plays)
this August night each year
commemorative candles
glide gently down the Ota River,
lucid lanterns of learning
for long lost symbolic souls
of youth and innocence past,
or the sores of wars of men
who would not agree
to simply disagree.


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