Will We Ever Hurt Across the ocean, around the world Devastation knows no limits When our kind are left to suffer As happenstance or coincidence Embraces them in a vice like grip Our prayers fly, but not fast enough As families are torn Tossed like discarded paper Into the vortex of the unknown Swimming toward …
Poet Joanna Lee
Prayers in rough wood My prayers in rough wood are strung up with twine and hope, spiral like incense to an unhearing heaven, float back to the ears of men Who with gentle hands unfold my finger-petals, suck out from cupped palm the splinters of unborn dreams, catch the bleeding dew of faith. Joanna Suzanne …
Poet Kayla Stewart, age 5
I Believe I believe God is everything everything soft not hard even the sun and the rain Kayla Mae Stewart is a five-year-old poet and artist. She lives in Quebec, Canada with her parents and two demanding cats. Ed's note: Kayla doesn't attend church, though she has gone to a couple Sunday school meetings with …
Poet Alan Summers
Gendai haiku first quarter moon dancing pinheads burst into new angel DNA email to Canada The moon is in its first quarter this Japan morning the day after Tanka the long night and longer day even our broken moon over the biggest wave separates our love Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning writer for …
Poet Tony Lewis-Jones
Tanka 11.03.11 God be kind to Japan this time. May the waters recede and our friends have peace. Tony Lewis-Jones is a poet and editor who lives in Bristol, UK. Thanks for reading Poets for Tsunami Relief. Please consider a donation to The Red Cross. In Canada, go to: http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000043&tid=016 In the UK, go to: …
Heather Grace Stewart 