atomic fallout

atomic fallout fall out out

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Before dawn of March 1st in 1954, the U.S. hydrogen bomb "Bravo" blew up at the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The power was 1,000 times more than the A-bomb on Hiroshima.
The Daigo Fukuryumaru (the Fifth Lucky Dragon), a tuna fishing boat, was operating near the Rongelap Atoll, which was thought to be outside the warning area and was about 160km away from Bikini Atoll.
A few hours later, radioactive pieces of coral reef called "Ash of Death" poured down on 23 crew members of the boat.

Daigo Fukuryumaru (Fifth Lucky Dragon)
第五福竜丸の事件


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some comments

A sensitive, beautiful poem Gabi. I clicked into the link and yes, a sad story indeed!

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you have a sensitive, gentle, beautiful heart, gabi-san.
Bless you.

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Gabi san, I was deeply moved by your poem and act.
Thank you.

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Thank you for posting this Gabi. A sad story indeed.

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very sad story Gabi, we are our own worst enemy.

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Dear GABI,
With what a powerful voice you've stated your mind.
I read the report with great sadness. . . and it only got worse by the end of the write-up.
It is beyond reason why we do this to ourselves.

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i never heard about this tragedy before
thank you, Gabi! (for your good poem!, for the link)
a friend from Germany

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A fitting poem, Gabi. Thanks, Gabi.


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busy bee

busy bee ... collecting HAIKU and sunshine

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sleepless night

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rainy season ...
I peer through
the raindrops






Movement of the rain clouds.
My home is just in the middle of the photo
where I made the red dot.



and a bit later, toward the end of this fit of rain



rainy season -
the drama of clouds
between mountain peaks


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Got quite a pounding on the old tin roof, and still going on ...
. weather.yahoo.co.jp/weather/


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You can tell whether one is clever
by his or her answers.
You can tell whether one is wise
by his or her questions.

Naguib Mahfouz


rainy season ...
shall I write a wet haiku
or a dry one ?


rainy season ...
shall I write a clever haiku
or a wise one ?



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and for good measure, the daily ISSA on the subject


big winter rain
or little winter rain...
sleeping is hard

ooshigure ko shigure neru mo muzukashi ya
大時雨小しぐれ寝るもむづかしや

Tr. David Lanoue


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some comments

I enjoyed the humor in these, Gabi...
they compliment each other nicely!

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Gabi, the playful and gentle spirit here gives me a lift.

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Yes, you've captured the 'lightness' of the haiku spirit so well!!!

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hi GABI - i enjoyed the wry humour in these two. i enjoy light-hearted haiku so yours brought much pleasure to me. thanks.



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half moon

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five o'clock -
a white half moon
in the dark blue sky




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Madame Spider

madame spider ... mending her torn net again and again I observe her every morning after each rainy night ...

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蜘蛛婦人　Kumo Fujin


Madame Spinne ...
sie flickt ihr zerrissenes Netz
wieder und wieder


oder


Madame Spinne -
sie flickt ihr Netz
wieder und wieder

くも母さん 何度も何度も巣を直す

kumo ka-san
nando mo nando mo
su o naosu

Tr. Nakamura Sakuo





.. Spiders in my Paradise











more
Spiders in my Paradise 。。極楽の蜘蛛


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rainy season

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tsuyu sanaka -
nothing matters
just me and the moment



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tsuyu sanaka ... in the middle of the rainy season of Japan


KIGO : rainy season


and my Haiku kun
Haiku in 2005


WHC World Kigo Database: Rain in various kigo



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Walking my path

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trekking season -
so many stones
on my path
　


please add your life walk haiku !


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fireflies again

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watching fireflies ...
the first, the second and then
ALL OF THEM !



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Fireflies (hotaru) (Japan)


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birdsong

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summer morning -
the birdsong has no end
in my valley


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Daruma Pond Frog

古池や　だるま飛び込む　水の音 furuike ya Daruma tobikomu mizu no oto this old pond - the sound of water as my Daruma jumps in

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PHOTO © ... www.lago.co.jp/ryouha
Rana porosa brevipoda


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Daruma and the FROG Connection ! !!!!!

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beetles

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piled up firewood -
sooo many beetles fighting
to survive



summer evening -
the rustling sound of
beetles fighting



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enlightenment

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staring into darkness -
the enlightenment of
just one firefly



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"A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment
in which we see into the life of things."

R.H. Blyth

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temporary enlightenment -
just a bunch of
fireflies


A bit more on Zen and such ...
.. zen-and-haiku/gabi



candle night -
is the spider looking for
enlightenment ?

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anthropo morphs visitors

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Collecting some haiku about visitors . . .


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visitors gone -
I am the great dishwasher,
laughs the rain




I usually leave the dirty dishes outside in a great barrel, and last night, there was a good heavenly help !



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rainy season ...
the first drop
on my Buddha's face


He sits outside in my garden and when it rains, he looks like getting the measels ...


Here he is still in the sunshine




Azalea and Shaka


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ひとり来て一人を訪ふや秋のくれ
hitori kite hitori o tou ya aki no kure

a person comes
to visit another -
autumn evening
Tr. Gabi Greve


A single person comes
To visit one alone
On an autumn evening.
Tr. McAuley




ひとり来て一人を訪ふや冬の月
hitori kite hitori o tou ya fuyu no tsuki
(1782)

a person comes
to visit another -
moon in winter

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Joys of Japan, 2012


visit ends
two sugar cubes beside
the cold tea cup

- Shared by Hengameh Ahmadi -



visit ends --
in the rear view
the sun goes down

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some of my old ones


waiting for guests ...
I sweep the path again
and again



客を待つ　吐く息ごとに　春深む

waiting for visitors -
with each breath
spring deepens



footsteps -
the nightly visitors
all exposed



summer visitors ...
the mind cluttered
with trivia



winter visitors -
two friendly demons
smile at me



preparing a teahouse for visitors

ancient tea garden -
polished leaves sparkle
in the spring sun


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Anthropomorphism (personification, gijinka　擬人化)
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Buddha and Rain

rainy season the first drop on the Buddha's head

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rose buds

raindrops on the rose buds - a letter from home

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Comments from HH Members!

Very nice, Gabi. Your third line makes me think that the letter's arrival is as nurturing as the raindrops on the rose. I really like this.

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Roses are for remembrance and love _ your 3rd line is most appropriate!
Lovely poem!

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well done, enjoyed the moment.

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i enjoyed to read your haiku, Gabi! very nice!
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Nice one, Gabi . . . and always lovely to get a letter from home.

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What I like about it is the way it lets go of the first image.
We are often so focused on playing off of that first image, resonating with it, or paralleling in some way -- prescribing, if you will, some sort of unity. This haiku is totally unforced, unconstructed I guess you could say, but nevertheless, a unified whole.
I learned from this one. Thank you for posting it.

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Guard well your spare moments.
They are like uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value will never be known.
Improve them and they will become
the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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your spare moments
your treasure moments
your haiku moments

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Gabi,

I am aware that you practice shasei, because you linked to my short analysis of Joan Payne Kincaid's shasei in your blog http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/07/shasei-sketch-from-nature.html

I've been meaning to thank you for that.

Anyway, even in shasei, take Joan's as an example, there is often an authorial "construction." I don't really have appropriate language to express this. I mean some sort of intervention or interpretation. The haijin has selected the elements with an eye towards, I don't know, cleverness maybe, or beauty sometimes -- towards INTENTIONAL resonance in either case

I often feel that I can't "get" a haiku on a given day; that I can not espy some interesting elements to connect, and so, have nothing to write.

Your haiku makes no attempt tat intentional resonance.. It "let's go" (again, suffering from lack of useful phrasing) of the first image entirely, instead of try to hinge upon it or play off of it. Personally, from where I am at in my development as a haijin, I just find that very instructive and I thank you for it.

I also enjoyed the quote from Emerson, by the way, and intend to pass it along to a friend who is having a bad day today.

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Dear T.,

the difficult part is really to let go, the timing ...
After practising Japanese Archery, Kyuudoo for more than 30 years, I have come to value the exercise as a means of taiken 体験, physical experience, much more than the philosophical bubbles about it.

If you are not absolutely with the action, the bowstring will soon punish you, so to speak, with a bruise on the arm or broken spectacles or whatever ... ...
any intentions (will people like my haiku? will it go published here or there?) will hamper the natural flow ... so you have to experience the

aiming without aiming ...

I might try and put my thoughts about this

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one of these days, haha, if my arrow hits my haiku or vice versa ...

a bit of it is here
http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/04/target-mato.html

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Thank you, Gabi, that was interesting.

For me, whether someone else will like and certainly not whether it will ever get published, truly never enters my mind. It's more "Is there something WORTHY here?" Either something remarkable or a way of showing it remarkably or perhaps, does some align with something else in a way that is, well, remarkable. See what I mean?

But I do appreciate your thoughts about the arrow, which I take to mean, the direction of one's consciousness.

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This is a perfect moment... captured so well, Gabi!

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I agree...one of those rare perfect moments captured perfectly --
in awe..... xxx applauds

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