Hidden Track: 'Hiroshima Day Poem' by Diana Roose

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Hidden Track: “Hiroshima Day Poem”

by Diana Roose



On many CD’s you find a hidden (mystery) track, unlabelled. I’ve known (confession!!) Diana Roose since high school. Now she’s a hard-working activist for the American Friends Service Committee (midlife career change -- she administered to Oberlin College for a quarter century)... but her main heart is in the horror morn at Hiroshima. She sent me this poem the day after Hiroshima Day 1999. Bob Holman HIROSHIMA MORNING it was a hot one that morning steamy already at breakfast i seem to remember woke up sweating cicadas loud hum bells tinkling breeze among rooftops i try to remember crowd gathers prayers incense even nonbelievers bow to buddha i want to remember we must trust each other gently teach our children that war is catastrophe and can be prevented the survivor remembers even in the midst of horror parents saved their children carefully quietly offering water there is always love brave love the monks chant walk solemn and slowly drum drum drum we both remember this lovely morning ©1999, Diana Roose (her first published poem) Back to feature article, > “June Jordan, Ruth Yarrow: Poems to Rebuild Kosovo”... Previous Feature Articles By Date \| By Topic