Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Thursday, January 8, 2015

#JeSuisCharlie (French for I am Charlie) Haiku

One of the things a cartoonist is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions -- paraphrasing Salman Rushdie

under
the
Paris
sky
blood
stains
in
the
shadow
of
a
minaret

NeverEnding Story, January 7, 2015

Note:  #JeSuisCharlie: Twitter solidarity follows killings at Charlie Hebdo by John Bowman:
In the wake of Wednesday's attack on the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie — French for "I am Charlie" — was trending in France, Canada and the U.K., with more than 130,000 mentions on Twitter....