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

Friday, March 31, 2023

Happiest Day: Trump Indicted Tanka

written on my happiest day in 2023

in my mind's eye
the royal palm tree blooming
with ravens ...
an echo from afar reaches me
to the cry, Trump Indicted 


FYI: The royal palm is a large majestic palm that is native to south Florida where the Loser-in-Chief has showcased and hidden himself. And for more poems selected for this happiest day, see my "Special Feature" post, Poems Selected for the Happiest Day in 2023: Trump Indicted.


Added:

to those who wear oversized MAGA hats

striking his gravel
the Trump judge shouts, you're free to go ...
April Fools' dream


Added: for the "Woke/Radical Left" (a politically-charged phrase used by Trumpist Republicans, Trump-lites, Trump-wannabes)

Mar-a-Lago man
tossed from one jail to another ...
April Holy Fool's dream

FYI: The Holy Fool (Yuródivyy, chiefly radical Eastern Orthodoxy), often associated with gifts of prophecy and vision, publicly acts as if mad or foolish (for Christ) 


Addeda sur\realist tanka inspired by a Holy Fool's ghost

the con man walks 
down the golden escalator
at Trump Tower
slips through the White House's entrance 
lands himself in the jail of fools