Two Nagasaki haiku
a break in the clouds
gave way to that sunrise –
Nagasaki
the morning prayers
rose heavenward that day –
Nagasaki
(Notes: The primary target August 9 was cloud-covered. The bomber crew went to the secondary target, Nagasaki, where a break in the clouds allowed them to drop the bomb.
Nagasaki was the most Catholic city in Japan at the time of the bombing)
gave way to that sunrise –
Nagasaki
the morning prayers
rose heavenward that day –
Nagasaki
(Notes: The primary target August 9 was cloud-covered. The bomber crew went to the secondary target, Nagasaki, where a break in the clouds allowed them to drop the bomb.
Nagasaki was the most Catholic city in Japan at the time of the bombing)
posted by A Secular Franciscan | 9:27 AM
2 Comments:
I've read (don't recall where) that at the moment of the Nagasaki bombing, a group was at prayer in the Cathedral (the mid-air explosion was directly over the Cathedral), praying that they might somehow atone for their nation's culpability in unjustly starting the Pacific war.
I vaguely recalled a story like that -hence the prayer haiku.
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