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

Monday, July 31, 2023

Wave after Wave Senryu

No More Fairy Tales, XV

wave after wave of heat
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FYI: This haiku is a sequel to the following one:

No More Fairy Tales, VI
for Greta Thunberg

tongues of forest fires 
there's no Plan[et] B, the rest
blah, blah, blah ...


New Yorker, July 11Is It Hot Enough Yet for Politicians to Take Real Action? The latest record temperatures are driving, again precisely as scientists have predicted, a cascading series of disasters around the world.

And UN News, July 27: Hottest July ever signals ‘era of global boiling has arrived’ says UN chief


AddedGame Show 2024, XXVI

another rent hike ...
sleepless, I count the number
of Trump charges

FYI: BBC News, July 31: "Why Trump's poll lead went up after criminal indictments:" Most Republican voters see charges as politically motivated

"We're really dealing with the tale of two Americas and two distinct bubbles," says Mr Clifford Young, president of US public affairs with Ipsos. "There's one bubble that sees Trump's behaviour as lawless. And there's another bubble that sees him as their champion - and that he's being attacked because of that."


Added:

another hours-long
talk of ending the cycle 
of breaking up
and geting back together ...
behind her this blue supermoon

FYI: Torontonians will get a better look at the second full supermoon on August 30.