{"id":187911,"date":"2021-07-05T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=187911"},"modified":"2021-07-04T09:27:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T08:27:44","slug":"haiku-on-war-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/07\/haiku-on-war-and-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiku on War and Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8:15 a.m.<br \/>\nAugust 6, 1945 &#8212;<br \/>\nfrozen in time<\/p>\n<p>Sadako Peace Day &#8212;<br \/>\nwe gather to remember<br \/>\nthe innocent children<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear arrogance<br \/>\nwreaked havoc in the Pacific &#8212;<br \/>\nremembering<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam &#8212;<br \/>\nwe both chose not to fight there<br \/>\nwhy kill peasants?<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Calley<br \/>\nslaughtered peasants at My Lai &#8212;<br \/>\nthat\u2019s the way war rolls<\/p>\n<p>The Vietnam War<br \/>\nleft a stain on America &#8212;<br \/>\nremember My Lai<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen years ago<br \/>\nthe U.S. invaded Iraq &#8212;<br \/>\nshock but not awe<\/p>\n<p>Israelis and<br \/>\nPalestinians at war<br \/>\nyet again<\/p>\n<p>It is the children<br \/>\nwho suffer most in war \u2013<\/p>\n<p>stop the shooting<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear arrogance<br \/>\nthreatens our very future &#8212;<br \/>\ntime to wake up<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear weapons<br \/>\nif something can go wrong it will \u2013<br \/>\nno one is perfect<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear roulette &#8212;<br \/>\na gun pointed at the heart<br \/>\nof humanity<\/p>\n<p>War with sticks and stones,<br \/>\nspears, swords, bows and arrows, bombs &#8212;<br \/>\nwhere does progress end?<\/p>\n<p>It was nothing like<br \/>\nNapoleon\u2019s retreat from Moscow &#8212;<br \/>\nstill we shivered<\/p>\n<p>So many reasons<br \/>\nwhy war is wrong \u2013 peace<br \/>\nis for the people<\/p>\n<p>Throughout history<br \/>\nthere has been far too much war &#8212;<br \/>\nwhen will we ever learn?<br \/>\n<em>____________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/david_krieger-e1515860118544.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/david_krieger-e1515860118544.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>David Krieger, Ph.D. is Founder and President Emeritus of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. Amongst several of his wide-spanning leadership endeavors in global peacebuilding, he is a founder and a member of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, councilor on the World Future Council, and is the chair of the Executive Committee of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility. He has a BA in Psychology and holds MA and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from the University of Hawaii as well as a J.D. from the Santa Barbara College of Law; he served for 20 years as a judge <\/em>pro tem<em> for the Santa Barbara Municipal and Superior Courts. Dr. Krieger is the author of many books and studies of peace in the Nuclear Age. He has written or edited more than 20 books and hundreds of articles and book chapters. He is a recipient of several awards and honors, including the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology Peace Writing Award for Poetry (2010)<\/em>. <em>He has a new collection of poems entitled <\/em>Wake Up<em>.\u00a0 For more visit the <\/em>Nuclear Age Peace Foundation<em> website: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wagingpeace.org\" >www.wagingpeace.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8:15 a.m.<br \/>\nAugust 6, 1945 &#8212;<br \/>\nfrozen in time<\/p>\n<p>Sadako Peace Day &#8212;<br \/>\nwe gather to remember<br \/>\nthe innocent children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-187911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}