Visit Malaysia Year Haiku - Sandakan Old Japanese Cemetery (State Of Sabah, North Borneo) Poem by john tiong chunghoo

Sandakan old Japanese cemetery
calm as sea the dead carries away
their sins

Sandakan old Japanese cemetery
frazzled calmness
in the drizzle

Sandakan old Japanese cemetery
in the drizzle an uneasy calmness
sweeps over me

Sandakan old Japanese cemetery
till death do we not part
the tombstones all facing one way - Japan

Sandakan old Japanese cemetery
loyalty, the dead and tombstone
all facing Japan

Sandakan old Japanese cemetery
a loyalty that never
bows to a tombstone

Sandakan old Japanese cemetery
a loyalty strong
as the tombstone


Sandakan old Japanese cemetery
all facing Japan
loyalty and tombstone

Sandakan old Japanese cemetery
pulling me in
the search of a haiku