The Imperfect Haiku

The article I had scheduled for this issue of SMEW can wait but the issue on which I am writing cannot!!

Here's a piece dedicated to Japan and the Japanese. I share the grief of destruction with the country which showered on me tonnes of happiness and loads of pleasant memories during my year long stay in Japan. It is the country of Perfection, of Precision, of Persistence, of Patience, of Politeness! It is sad to note that God probably doesn't like perfection or is it that He feared competition?? Why else did He take to destruction …of the ….Perfection?????

Here is a series of Haikus (a 5-7-5 words Japanese form of poetic expression of 3 lines) making one big Haiku depicting the current scenario.

Earthquake shook land below feet

Tsunami dared, the Nuclear reactor too flared

The sea stirred in anger

The volcano glared, everyone stared

Cars, trains, ships, planes engulfed by waves

like toys in water-tub drowned

Land, sea-waves and the fire

Showed simply no politeness, but only ire

To land of politeness personified

Land of the Rising Sun

Is one such which can never set

I am willing to bet

Rising every time from the debris

Rebuilding from destruction isn't an easy task

Cannot be done by everyone

Japanese- you've done it before

Can do again, build a much better

More perfect Japan than before

Like Edison, his lab burnt

When years of research went-up in smoke

Said coolly, at least now

All mistakes were burnt up

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