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28.04.2015

Haiku for Nepal by Francisco X. Alarcón:

 

esta campana

tañe en silencio por

ayuda en Nepal

 

this bell is tolling

in silence, calling for

help in Nepal

 

English & Spanish: Francisco X. Alarcón

April 27, 2015

 

Photo: The bell of a temple lies in the debris of the collapsed temple after an earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal April 26, 2015. REUTERS/Gopen Rai

 

https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/27377717/nepal-earthquake-the-moment-the-avalanche-hit/

 

Athens 28.4.2015

Dear Francisco,

thanks for sending your poem. Already Gabriel has written as well a Haiku poem ending with the word 'after shocks'.

Nepal and Kathmandu has a special meaning for the Kids' Guernica - Guernica Youth movement since the Japanese branch of Kids' Guernica is coordinated by Takuya Kaneda whose wife comes from Nepal. Consequently there was created a peace mural in 2005, that is just towards the end of the civil war which had raged there. Children left Kathmandu to travel to a village at the foot of the Himmalya. So see for yourself what landscape the children imaged. It emerged out of a dialogue between urban and rural children.

Nepal - dialogue between city and rural village

Anyone who has gone through the experience of an earthquake - we experienced this here in Athens in 1999 - shall never forget this feeling when the earth begins to tremble. It is an experience no one can really communicate to those who have not made a similar experience.

With warmest regards

hatto