Haiku for the Greening of Mitsubish

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Subject: Haiku for the Greening of Mitsubishi 

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HAIKU D'ETAT
"Mitsubishi out of Burma"
March 20, 1996 
Osaka, Japan

In the rain I saw
Strange men armed with chainsaws
Cut down my playground.
     - Carol Schlenker, Tokyo

Frigid barren moon,
as great Mitsubishi waxes
life in Burma wanes.
 -- Paul Hitchfield

Trees, Mitsubishi
desecrates their corpses, cry
for sapling orphans
     --Amy Yamashiro

Constructive engagement!
 Dozers roar
War elephants
Victorious.
 --Don Seekins, Nago, Okinawa

if all beings can
evolve creatively:
Mitsubishi too
  -- Ken Rodgers

Echoes whispering
You traded mankind's lifeline 
In the days of greed
  --David Wolfberg

Forest without voices
Silent sterile plantations
Birds, animals GONE!
  --Frank ChaseSpinning blue planet
For the next generation
I send my message.
  --Kayo Koyama, Kyoto

Mitsubishi - go!
Bury your shameful actions
In fresh thawed spring soil
  --David Wolfberg

Mitsubishi leaves
A deadened forest behind
Silent legacy
  --Frank Chase

Butterflies and birds
Fluttering with rainbow wings
Please, do not destroy
  --Anna Brown, Flint, Michigan

Why must you slaughter?
We can all live happily,
respect what's not yours
     --Sage and Spirit

Just for convenience
The tall green trees are crying
Mitsubishi's shame.
  --Chie Fujiwara, Kyoto

"Open your hearts now.
Stop being so destructive!"
Says the woodland thrush
  --Frank Chase

Ancient trees know things
They speak but we cannot hear
Make way for progress.
-- Richard Sadowsky, translator

Mitsubishi waxes.
Into a barren moonscape,
gentle Burma wanes.
  --Paul Hitchfield

law of the jungle
is competition? No Way!
it's symbiosis
  --Ken Rodgers

Oh, Mitsubishi
You are messing up nature
so stop killing trees.
  --Yuji Matsumoto (Age 10, Kyoto)

Felling the forests
Who stands to gain, who to lose?
The profit motive.
  -- Richard Sadowsky, translator 

trees grow huge, protect
the Earth. Take in resources;
give oxygen all need  
  --Ken Rodgers

Forest clear-cutting
Mitsubishi's goal is gold
Stockholders all grin.
  --Frank Chase

Mitsubishi grows
slurps up ancient forests;
still has to breathe
   -- Ken Rodgers

Houses over the brook
Gone are the wild Lady-Slippers.
Sad home coming.
  -- Erna Taguchirich rich company;
ethical bankruptcy
-what future in this?
  -- Ken Rodgers

power is not good
Mitsubishi, and not bad.
It's how you use it
   -- Ken Rodgers

Mitsubishi no
 "Hishi" wa Midori no 
Shirushinari

Mitsubishi's name
Comes from symbol of green plants,
Become like your name!
	Yutaka Itakura, Kyoto

Trees are treasured friends
Why do you cut the trees down?
You have no friends left!
	Kota Mio (Age 7, Kyoto)

Trees breathe for the earth
The earth gives to all creatures
Enough to go  round.
	Maura Hurley, Kyoto

Cut down in minutes
Hundreds of years old Icho-tree
Again a beauty lost
  -- Erna Taguchi

Mitsubishi sucks
Digging up the earth with trucks
Just to make big bucks
  --Maura Hurley, Kyoto

Everything must die
None can change this simple rule
Nature gets her way
  --David Wolfberg

Logger man turns, walks
from the rainforest subdued,
never to be known.
--Tim Keating,  New York City

Wall Street Man turns, walks
from the newspaper tossed out
seen but never heard.
  --Tim Keating, New York City

Builder Man turns, walks
from tropical plywood forms
concrete cloaked in blood.
  --Tim Keating, New York City

Dying Man turns, walks
from funeral parlor box
silent forest tomb.
  --Tim Keating,  New York City

Raging fire on the dry hill.
Once green trees, now naked
Careless smokers
  -- Erna Taguchi

Ancient trees know things
They speak but we cannot hear
Make way for progress.
-- Richard Sadowsky, translator

Trample no seedlings
Under the grandfather trees
Looking down on you
  --David Wolfberg

Seedlings will mature
They'll become grandfathers too
In one hundred years
  --David WolfbergForests disappear
Sounds, sights, smells, nurturing life . . .
Opaque memories
 -- Anonymous

Mitsubishi waxes.
Into a barren moonscape,
gentle Burma wanes.
-- Paul Hitchfield

Mitsubishi "lives"
Extinguishing life today
Tomorrow destroyed
  --David Wolfberg

Dreary high school boys
hair cut too short
Dreary countryside
shorn of trees.
-- Don Seekins, Nago, Okinawa

You must change your ways
For you, for me, and those trees
We want to live, too
  --David Wolfberg

"Cancer spreading near?"
Can you hear Pacific Yew?
"I can protect you"
  --David Wolfberg

Mitsubishi's brew
"Double Double toil'n trouble
Our profits grew!"
  --Frank Chase

You, Mitsu, could say
"Destruction will end TODAY"
You own more than I
  --David Wolfberg





All I have are thoughts
You have land and giant mills
You should hear your thoughts!
  --David Wolfberg

Your dealings with SLORC
Show you have so far to go!
Find your heart again.
  --David Wolfberg

Felling the forests
Who stands to gain, who to lose?
The profit motive.
-- Richard Sadowsky, translator

A tree
A gift from god
Please do not cut it down.
Shame! Mitsubishi.
-- Don Seekins, Nago, Okinawa

Your meaning of three
might just as well be the stars 
of Orion's belt.
     T Shigemura

Mitsubishi sucks
Digging up the earth with trucks
Just to make big bucks
     Maura Hurley, Kyoto

The secret of life:
Evolving diversity
Give nature a chance
  --Frank Chase

Sapling orphans cry
Burma's land is going dry
Mitsubishi, why?
     --John McLaughlin















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