bangbangbang
followed by eerie silence ...
the night deepens
FYI: for more about onomatopoeia and haiku noir, see my "To the Lighthouse" posts, "A Rhetoric Device, Onomatopoeia" and "Haiku Noir"
Added:
alone in the TV's light
fade-out
before each ad
Added: This Brave New World, LXII
COP27:
in this resort city
on the Red Sea
hundreds upon hundreds
of jumbo jets touch down
FYI: From 6 to 18 November, Heads of State, CEOs, ministers and negotiators, along with climate activists, civil society representatives will meet in the Egyptian coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh for the largest annual gathering on "climate action."
And CBC News, Nov. 5: Climate activists stop private jets from leaving Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport
The environmental group says Schiphol is the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the Netherlands, emitting 12 billion kilograms annually.
This tanka is a sequel to the following poem:
The End (of COP26)
This Brave New World, XXIX
written in response to The Hill's Nov. 10 News : Nancy Pelosi defends "America's moral authority" on climate action and The Washington Post's Nov. 11 News: U.S. and China issue joint pledge to slow climate change
Ame rica
i s a l l i n
with arms linked
young activists chanting
blahblahblah, clean up your mess
a pundit ranting
beneath slate-grey skies
during this decade
there will be talk after talk
between the US and China
