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Fukushima
staggered by a blow
six hundred million times more
fierce than the first time
man delivered a sun
to bloom and scorch upon her loam
untold shadows
no fire this time in shattering waves
though now, as then, so many souls
vanished from this tangent
and the swallowed star,
made on earth, extracts the same
deadly half-life toll
Friday 24th August 2012 10:04 pm
"We Reap What We Sow" - Japans Tsunami and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster 2011
"We Reap What We Sow" - Japans Tsunami and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster 2011
The recent nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan in the wake of the recent earthquakes and tsunami shows what folly man has to think that he can contain forever and in all eventualities the power of nuclear energy.
No one thought of the force of a tsunami wave breaking the cooling system on th...
Friday 10th June 2011 11:11 pm
'Devastation' (with recent events in Japan in mind).
'Devastation'
Devastation
Leads to candle light
Leads to despair
Leads to repair
Too... togetherness
Devastation
Leads to who you are
As a people
As a person
As one
Devastation
Leads to the sorrow
Leads to the loss
Leads to the humbling
That brings out,
the best of human kind
...Thursday 21st April 2011 3:15 pm
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