{"id":74577,"date":"2016-06-13T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=74577"},"modified":"2016-06-04T15:58:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T14:58:15","slug":"a-tree-for-the-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/06\/a-tree-for-the-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tree for the Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Hiroshima<\/a>

Hiroshima Tree at Tavistock Square, London. Photo \u00a9 Global Poetry.<\/p><\/div>\n

As far away as London, there is a solid tree,
\na stately tree, I would say, casting a broad shadow
\non a cool green lawn.<\/p>\n

A plaque at the base of the tree tells passers-by
\nthat the tree was planted by the worshipful Mayor
\nof Camden, Councillor Mrs. Millie Miller,
\non August 6, 1967.<\/p>\n

It was twenty-two years after the new
\nU.S. bomb destroyed Hiroshima, killing ordinary people \u2013
\nmen, women and children \u2013 by blast, fire and radiation.
\nSome victims were incinerated, leaving only shadows.<\/p>\n

How can a single tree, no matter how solid, bear
\nthe weight of such memory?<\/p>\n

Now, many years later, picnickers laugh and eat
\ntheir lunches in the shade of the tree.<\/p>\n

_______________________________________<\/p>\n

David Krieger is founder and president of the <\/em>Nuclear Age Peace Foundation<\/em>, and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>. <\/em>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. 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>.He<\/em> has a new collection of poems entitled <\/em>Wake Up.\u00a0 For more visit the <\/em>Nuclear Age Peace Foundation website: www.wagingpeace.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 globalpoetry.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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