Haunting Memories Of Ueno Station, Tokyo,1946 Poem by Stanley Cooper

Haunting Memories Of Ueno Station, Tokyo,1946

Rating: 4.8


Orphaned children
Hungry
Scavenging
Lost
Pleading
Chocoletto...Cigaretto

Haggard
Hollowed cheeks
Vacant eyed
Lifeless
Pleading
Chocoletto...Cigaretto

Horrors of war
Pain
Agony
Aged children
Pleading
Chocoletto...Cigaretto

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Joseph Daly 15 December 2005

Moving piece Stanley. You manage, with skillfull economy of words, to capture the devastation unleashed on Japan after the war. I admire the way that this is not preachy and that you allow the reader to decide themselves. 'Chocoletto...Cigaretto', it's strange that the desire for the least important things becomes powerful in our desperation. It's almost as if it is the little things we need to remind us that we are human.

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Nathan Pigott 15 December 2005

THis is an interesting poem - well done old boy!

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