Juneteenth Fireworks Haiku

barbecue smoke billowing

across the white picket fence

Juneteenth fireworks

NeverEnding Story, June 19 2020

FYI: "Despite the lack of federal recognition, Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or the Black Fourth of July, has lived on through rich traditions, including lively celebrations in the form of festivals and parades with local bands playing, storytelling, picnics, fireworks and a Juneteenth staple — barbecues."

Yellow Ribbons Haiku

for the spiritual followers of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary and founding father of the Republic of China (formally established on January 1, 1912 following the Xinhai Revolution, which itself began with the Wuchang Uprising on October 10, 1911),  who said, "The revolution is not yet successful, the comrades still need to strive for the future." (革命尚未成功，同志仍需努力)

a sea of waving hands

with yellow ribbons

Hong Kong's skyline at dawn

NeverEnding Story, October 8, 2014

Note: Occupy Central Pro-Democracy protestors have adopted the yellow ribbon as their symbol. Below is my another poem about the Occupy Central movement, which was first published on the "National Day" of the People's Republic of China, October 1 :

as if
stars were spread thick
across the Hong Kong sky:
a mobile light vigil
in the Central District 

Mobile Light Vigil Tanka

as if
stars were spread thick 
across the Hong Kong sky:
a mobile light vigil
in the Central District

NeverEnding Story, October 1, 2014

The answer is blowin' in the wind

for young students who have activated Hong Kong’s largest-scale civil disobedience campaign ever to defend democracy and fight for universal and equal suffrage

the riot police
tighten in a ring
of shields and masks
around sit-in protesters --
a flurry of doves

a wall of students
linked arm-in-arm ...
Occupy Central
with Love and Peace
swaying in moonlight

NeverEnding Story, September 29, 2014

Note: Hong Kong's main financial district is known as Central.

Occupy Central Tanka

for Hong Kong's Occupy Central Pro-Democracy students

Hong Kong's Central:

lines of students stand firm

in clouds of tear gas

facing off 

with the riot police

NeverEnding Story, September 29 2014

Note: Hong Kong's main financial district is known as Central.

China Tanka

eating
a McDonald's happy meal
in Tiananmen Square
so many students
were killed

Haiku News (Dec., 5, 2009)