Hiroshima Haiku Poems by 9H1
Year 9 students were asked for their personal responses to the work they had studied on the Hiroshima bomb. The students were asked to write traditional Japanese poems called Haiku which have a very structured format of 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second and 5 in the third. Here is a selection of the best Hiroshima Haiku poems:
1 plan was made
1 plane brought the rain
4 Horsemen came
(Yussif)
death and destruction
as far as the eye can see
what a waste of life
(Henry)
The life of thousands
the life of people has gone
terror in my eyes
(Jhain-Zaib)
Hiroshima bomb
Hiroshima bomb was dropped
Hiroshima bomb
(Nathan)
Poor Hiroshima
the land where destruction lived
the grave of thousands
(Mohammed)
Everyone hurt
by radioactive gas
we don't deserve this
(Mohammed)
Hiroshima falls
Every building small and tall
Eighty thousand die
(Arjun)