The sky was light blueOcean wind warm and gentlemockingly cheerfulHouses stood empty. Siilent.Crumbled under the sorrow. -Samantha HollaschStench of sea and death,Limp bodies, hanging from trees,The peaceful sound of waves.Stars flicker over barren landDisaster struck this town.
-Sasha Woffinden
Unrelenting wavesA deceased samurai.A ceremony,Sorrow salutes spirits,A garden embraces dead. -Billy FujiiDarkest demons riseFrom the depths of the oceanDestroys everythingDead scattered in the moonlightJapan shaking...unceasing -Mark NishidaReturning back homewater up to your anklesearching across the groundlooking over lost memoriesmemories washed away -Jacob FischerShattered bits o glassScattered all over the floorfaded imagesdisappearing with the sunSetting in the calm deep sea. -Mikio Nakata
A city of powerto traumatized survivorssmiling photographsfamiliar to ruinedsounds of exposed, raw, weeping -Kiori TanakaA lone pine tree standsEver so lonely, nothing left.Every turn filled with sorrow and despair, nothingfamiliar left. Tears fall -Max FuYears quietly sheddingI’m inclined to feel sorrowDwelling on the deceasedLost in the disaster zoneEverything taken from them. -Thomas KilaShards of shattered glassa broken picture hangingthe lives of manylay washed out and brokenjust as splintered as the frame -Saya Okuno
Drowning in black waves.Trembling, struggling to find light.Few words said that day.Screams and cries filled the drenched air.No one dared to sleep that night -Emily RobisonTears fall down her cheeks,and drop into her hot tea.Forehead creased with pain.Her heartaches for those far away.Are the ones I love okay? -Elyse DavidsonAfter the visitI see the carnage myselfTheir thoughts flow to meI remember my own trip and all the horror I saw -Matt DixonTheir voices cry out,The pain they feel unceasing.We feel their sorrowAs if it were all our own.We shall not ever forget. -Lauren Sekiguchi
The clock stopped tickingDoes that mean it never did?the photos are goneAre the memories gone too?The past cannot float away. -Arahi FletcherShattered photo frame,Two children in the photo.So where are they now?Did they live, or did they die?Did they ever say goodbye... -Hana JacobsenThe mass destruction I hear about in TankasTo all the victimsI write in sorrow for youI pray you can rest in peace. -Fayaz MajidShatters of terror,calm seas with no beginning.Lonely pine houses.Radiation left behind.Life’s memories washed away. -Kien Malarney
Missed the chance to say
goodbye, everything is gone,
zero hope is left.
Up in the sky, the moon shines
In my swollen heart, love, tears lie.
-Kanna Mah
All those red backpacks
water soaking the inside
All those red backpacks
Waiting for their lost owners
who are lost in a long sleep.
-Adriano Tombesi
Cement triangles
Sprawled along the empty beach
Scattered hopes and dreams
Priceless family missing
Never ending memories
-Grace Cannell
Abandoned wasteland
Empty road stretched to yonder
Nothing to be seen
Erased from the face of Earth
As if nothing ever happened
-Ian McGuire
Where do I go now?All thats left is pain and grief/All that’s left is death.Through the rubble and debrisWhere in the world do I go? -Sei AntonidesWiped out cityearthquake and tsunaminothing is leftfamilies are split apartbut never losing faith. -Eisuke TaniokaIt’s an empty land.The full moon lights up the sky.My mind tells me to go homebut there is not more home. -Sarah NakanishiBeautiful citynow empty, silent, darknesstorn from its beautyno rain can wash awaythe pain felt, it now walks alone. -Emma Watts
My eyes bulge in fearwater streaming through the door.I plead for safetyI envision my futureBut death is all I can see. -Justin McAauliffeEmpty house and soulshattered portraits of loved onesHow could you live on?When everything is destroyed.My hopes go to survivors. -Courtney HalversonA window shatteredPieces of lives on the groundHeart break and lossesSo we pick up the piecesTo fix the broken window. -Andy TakagiScreams echo, eyes tear.Their cries are heard as if wewere there, really there.Not just watching on TV.Huge waves destroy Tohoku. -Lisa Watanuki