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English Haiku (Re: Sea)

Re: Sea:

This HAIKU are composed by Imagination if I could visit TARAWA atoll , Gibert Islands, where my uncle (My late father’s elder brother) was still (M.I.A.=Missing in Action) as Japanese Navy Marine soldier in Nov. 19-21, in 1943 at the age of 27..

1.
Uncle still M.I.A.
69 years passed
TARAWA Atoll

2.
Blue Ocean
Colored in Red
Tarawa Atoll

3.
Tarawa Atoll
Tiny island in the Pacific
Why berried somewhere

4.
Where are you (berried)
Feeling Hot sand
Blood boiled up

(When reading the memorial stone at cemetery, war victims of family composed )

5.
Wrecked ship
Blue Atoll Ocean
Autumn wind

6.
No evidence of Life
Tarawa Atoll
Wrecked ship remained

Asahi Haikuist Network by David McMurray
http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku/

memorial service Trip to Tarawa HP (English)
http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~yagiko/englishindex.html
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