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

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Diary Tanka

dear diary
how will I fill you up with thoughts?
in the attic
my ten-year-old self gazes
at the blank face of its page


FYI: For more about character tanka, see To the Lighthouse: Character/Persona Tanka


Added: Game Show 2024, XXIV

Mar-a-Lago at sunset
a wall of royal palms
heavy with crows


AddedGame Show 2024, XXV
written in response to The Independent, July 19: "Is Donald Trump going to prison?"

a scream 
from Mar-a-Lago 
darkening
this sultry night 
one stray answers another ...

FYI: Vox, July 19: "Donald Trump’s list of legal headaches just keeps growing: With a third potential indictment against him, the walls continue to close in on Trump."

1 The hush money case, 2 The January 6 investigation, 3 The classified documents probe and 4 The case over interference in the 2020 election in Georgia


AddedThis Brave New World, XCV

on TV 
missing Titanic tourist sub
headlines for a week ...
capsized refugee boats scrolls 
across the bottom of the screen


AddedThis Brave New World, XCVI

a woman with kids
in the smoky twilight
a wall mural
of Bashar Assad looking out 
over earthquake rubble