Tag: Mayumi Kawaharada

Prayer –From tears to smiles—

Haiku and photos by Mayumi Kawaharada Winter Interminable queuesof displaced people—                                                blizzard-ridden road                                                       Mother and baby                                                        carried off by the attacks—                                       trampled winter roses                                                    War turns gentle siblings                             into crazed soldiers—                                  a frozen battlefield                                                      Soldiers loot,                                                              for their loved ones…                                                furious snowstorm                                                        A doll in red                                                                on a muddy snowmelt road —                            immobilized tanks                                                          Raging winter rain                                                      to the ashen …Read More

Ogura haiku

Mayumi Kawaharada writes: At the beginning of autumn, on a sunny day, I joined a volunteer event of fixing bamboo fences alongside the bamboo forests in Arashiyama. It was organised by a NPO called “People together for Mt. Ogura”. My haiku master , Stephen H Gill, is one of the cofounders of this group. They …Read More

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