The document is a blog post from Poetry24 featuring a poem titled "Prayer for a Japan" by Serbian poet Tatjana Debeljački. The 3 sentence poem expresses the poet's laughter and prayer for Japan turning to pain and dried hands with the spring wind as something blackened turns to smoke. The post provides background on the poet and a comment from another reader about prayers not being enough in the face of natural disasters like tsunamis.

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Prayer for a Japan
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Bubbling laughter
powered by
rips out of me
into words
humming
white scent of incense Featured Poets
I can’t help speaking
I see through petals Andrew Rihn
centuries old
and my hands clasp
Bill Dawson
in a prayer for a Japan.
Cath Nichols
Then something wizened
something blackened Christine Laennec
turns to smoke
starts shifting Clare Kirwan
rips out the heart of laughter
stamps pain on my forehead Colin Watts
with a spring wind
ties my hands
Colleen Redman
and so dries up
Csilla Toldy
my prayer for a Japan.
Douglas Polk
© Tatjana Debeljački
Elvis McGonagall
Tatjana Debeljački - member of the Association of Writers of Serbia UKS, Haiku Society of
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Erika Dreifus
Serbia, Writers’ Association Poeta, Belgrade and Croatian Writers’ Association - has
published three collections of poetry and blogs at debeljacki.mojblog.rs/
Gabrielle Bryden
Posted by broken biro at 10:04 Helena Nolan
Labels: Japan, Tatjana Debeljački
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Stafford Ray said...
Prayers are not enough, are they! Joshua Baumgarten
Tsunami trumps technology. Time for us all to step back and really think about
Kat Mortensen
what we are doing. There will always be tsunamis.
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Today's poem is from Serbian
poet, Tatjana Debeljački
@debeljacki http://poetry-
24.blogspot.com/2011/04/prayer
-for-japan.html 2 days ago
@AsininePoetry thanks very
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mention yesterday! 2 days ago
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