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Another Peace Haiku? This time from Basho and not a JHS student. This one makes me think of Thomas Peabody's War Song, ruins跡 remain.
> The eagles and the ravens
We glutted with our foemen;
The heroes and the cravens,
The spearmen and the bowmen.

> We brought away from battle,
And much their land bemoaned them
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44849/the-war-song-of-dinas-vawr

#War #WarSong #Haiku #Poetry #ThomasPeacock #WarPoetry #WarIsALie #松尾芭蕉 #MatsuoBashō #basho #PeaceHaiku
/HT @chowleen

David Swanson : English Poem Update

Do not go gentle to a deadly scene,
Wise eyes should question propaganda's sway;
Rage, rage against the awful war machine
Though ash-filled skies as yet remain unseen
Those undistracted raise their heads and say
Do not go gentle to a deadly scene
The panem et circenses scam obscene
A final curtain's dropping on this play
Rage, rage against the awful war machine
It hurts to turn one's eyes from lies serene
To question, fathom, challenge, and inveigh
Do not go gentle to a deadly scene
The path's not the other side but in between
A compromise is wisdom's only way
Rage, rage against the awful war machine
And you, my brother, of another flag
Join with us without borders or delay
Do not go gentle to a deadly scene
Rage, rage against the awful war machine

死の現場に優しく行ってはいけない。
賢明な目は、プロパガンダの揺らぎを疑うべきだ。
怒れ、恐ろしい戦争マシーンに怒れ
灰に覆われた空はまだ見えないが
惑わされない者は、頭を上げて言う。
殺伐とした光景に優しくしてはいけない
パネマン・エ・サーケンセスの詐欺は卑猥だ
この劇の最後の幕が下りる
ひどい戦争マシーンに怒れ、怒れ
平穏な嘘から目をそらすのは苦痛だ
疑問を持ち、理解し、挑戦し、憤ること。
死にゆく光景に優しくしてはいけない
道は向こう側でなく、その間にある。
妥協は知恵の唯一の道
怒れ、怒れ、ひどい戦争マシーンに
そして、私の兄弟、別の旗のあなた
国境もなく、遅滞もなく、我々と合流せよ
死地に赴くことなかれ
怒れ、怒れ、恐ろしい戦争マシーンに対抗して

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

After a re-visit to a link from David Swanson I found the original page and saw the War Lies Bingo sheets. If I had to watch a World Leader speech on TV I guess the bingo sheets would make it less of a waste of time...
https://justworldnews.org/2023/01/17/how-to-play-war-lies-bingo/
In Japan it was #MinakoSaito and #KenjiIsezaki that brought #AnneMorelli and #Porsonby's work to my attention. #斎藤美奈子 #伊勢崎賢治 #戦時の嘘 #WarPropaganda #StateOfTheUnion #DavidSwanson #WarIsALie
https://zotum.net/wiki/bsmall2/DigitalGarden/WarPropagandaPrinciples

> In 2001, a leftwing Belgian philosopher called #AnnMorelli codified the main themes of the pro-war propaganda #Ponsonby had identified into a 10-point list...
https://laptrinhx.com/news/how-to-play-war-lies-bingo-pxN2rEn/
#DavidSwanson #WarIsALie