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'Love poem for Fukushima' to help assuage radiation fears

FUKUSHIMA--The Fukushima municipal government is using a poem to help soothe fears of potential contamination of local produce due to the crisis at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

According to the municipal government, the 37-line poem, titled "Ketsui" (Determination) was written by Ryoichi Wago.

A native of Fukushima, Wago has expressed a deep attachment to his hometown in the poem which begins--and is peppered--with the word "Fukushima":

Live in Fukushima [Prefecture]

Love Fukushima

Don't give up on Fukushima

Believe in Fukushima

Walk around Fukushima...

The government is asking local farmhouses to enclose copies of a leaflet containing the poem with shipments of their produce. They hope the poem will convey to consumers the very real struggle faced by Fukushima farmers in the wake of the nuclear accident.

According to the Fukushima city government, it began free distribution of the leaflets at municipal office branches and local agricultural cooperative offices this month. Copies have also been delivered to local farm households so they can distribute them to their customers.

The city government printed 100,000 copies of the A4-size leaflet for its first edition. The poem is printed against a background photo of peaches, a local specialty. The images will be updated in future print runs to reflect pears, grapes and apples according to their peak shipment periods when they come into season.

Wago, 42, teaches Japanese at a high school. In 1999, he won the fourth Nakahara Chuya Prize, an award given in memory of the early 20th-century poet.

Immediately after the March 11 earthquake, Wago began posting inspirational messages on Twitter such as "Bring back [our] dream, Bring back [our] Fukushima." "Are you to forget the great quake, the blue sky?" These messages have resonated with many people, attracting a number of responses.

Wago's Twitter feed attracted the attention of municipal government officials, who were looking to act upon food contamination fears. They asked him to support their efforts and Wago gladly agreed to help.

"When I was desperate over the current situation and about Fukushima's future, I was encouraged by many people. I decided to live my life here in Fukushima with pride," Wago said.

He said he wrote the poem in mid-April based on his own experiences.

Why Love Poems? « Writing Post

Why Love Poems?

If you look on Amazon nowadays for romantic poetry, we’re sorry to say that most of what you will spot are anthologies of other people’s poems, and many of these contain what are usually referred to as “the classics”, which is commonly another way of saying that they’re very old.

What you won’t find easy to lay your hands on are collections of original, fresh, modern love poetry.

In our opinion, that’s sad, since the issues raised in romantic poems from centuries ago are no doubt irrelevant to lovers nowadays.

Exactly what do we mean by this?

While it’s correct that romance and love are eternal, in a great number of households these days, both partners have to go out to work, just to pay the bills, never mind afford the occasional extravagance.

Modern life is frenetic, resulting in people not having enough time to really develop their relationships and keep them healthy – in many cases, partners hardly even see each other at all other than at weekends.

And the number of divorces resulting from this marital muddle are truly shocking.

However, it’s our opinion that love poems can help in all sorts of ways.

Let’s start when the fire of love is first ignited, for example.

In our case, we met online because we lived on separate continents. And while we spent up to twelve hours each day talking via email, IM and Internet telephony (e.g. Skype), we desired something to help intensify the bond that was fast developing.

So, each day, attached to a long ecard that described how we each felt and what we’d been up to, a romantic poem was included.

Now, these romantic poems were not copied from some other poetry collection, but were hand-crafted, but don’t worry if you don’t feel up to writing your own love poems – as long as the poem conveys the right sentiments, it will still achieve your objectives.

You see, the most important consideration is that the verse must be heart-felt and sincere, and not something you stole from inside a schmaltzy greetings card.

As a man, you might feel that love poetry is just too sissy, but you’d be utterly erroneous!

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In fact, the vast majority of girls will surely appreciate the fact that you have the ability to put your emotions into words, something that males are renowned for finding hard.

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