if rambo sewed curtains
instead of his arm
what strength would he
place in the cotton,
resilience to tugs and pressure
from a climbing cat
or a child wishing
to see snow from a
winters window,
it need not be war
it need not be pain,
sometimes curtains close
out the things we wish
not to see,
but does rambo need
to sew them every time
Rambo
Until Time paused a moment imploded, the shuddering tremor, rippled in dramatic light silence came with pain, fallen boughs new sown seeds, growth blemished in bark reaching skyward with gentle leaves, the tree had not forgotten yet learned from it's birth never to touch that light or feel that moment again. Kyochikuto/Oleander from chugoku to the ota nothing remained upon the debris strewn red earth, in the silence that came with time, shoots with elliptic leaves to five bright petals, vivid signal that, survival is the future that through resilience we find a peace and learn that for no other reason it should never happen again. With these two poems i came third out of 741 poets worldwide and was presented with a gift from the Japanese government and they where read out at a ceremony at UN headquarters in New York by the Japanese Ambassador which you can watch here http://www.un.org/disarmament/special/meetings/dis_week/ the poems revolve around the Hibakusha survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the poems are also going into a book in New York
from his minaret
a muezzin calls,
seeing new light lengthen
into shadows on the streets
as those of prayer approach,
first of five calls
that he never forgot
he served god as a voice,
sound of wings caught attention
a white falcon landed before him
perched on stone edge
head tilted
eyes spoke more than the beak,
voice faltered in mid call
from the remnants of dark
tattered crows flew in
looking for the rejected brother
kaf left behind,
muezzin touched falcons face
communicating
as the faithful below watched,
crows taunted minaret
hollow eyes caught flash
of gold,
muezzin had been spoken to
a journey to be undertaken
to which of the seven valleys
he was unsure,
he had to find the bond and unity
that once nurtured earth
as he had remembered it,
with falcon on arm
stepped down spiral staircase
a purpose found
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