Representative Poetry Online
On this day: June 12th
Random Poem of the Day
2man and his puny buildings down,
3without bitterness,
4on this side street in Kobe,
5rescue workers with swift
6tender, caring hands,
7give man's answer back.
Notes
1] On January 17, 1995, for twenty seconds, the Hyogo-Ken Nanbu earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale, killed over 5,500 people, injured more than 26,000, and left 300,000 homeless in and near the Japanese city of Kobe. Back to Line