Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
Saturday, July 4, 2026

Pursuit of Happiness

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Trump Empire, Inc ., XCVI  for MAGA cult and Christian Nationalists in Trumperica gated cul-de-sac lined with wavy green oaks in golden sunl...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

River Trail Tanka

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Starlight on the Gutter of  Blossoms , IV silver moonlight  drips through weeping willow leaves the river trail  reeks  where a stray rips t...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

The Winter of Our Discontent

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Its edges browned with age, another photograph, long buried beneath piles of boxes, has come to light in recent days. His eyes meet the came...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

West Bank on Mute Haiku

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Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words,  CCXLVIII: "a Mina plush doll, blood-stained and headless" West Bank on mute   a Mina p...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Epstein Email Gembun

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In a 2011 email to Ghislaine Maxwell, “… that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.” a pink-haired girl seen through a telescope of age-spotted h...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Peace Crackled Tanka

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burst after burst of muzzle flashes lighting up our night ... between neighbors and in hearts the peace is crackled NeverEnding story, Septe...
Monday, July 7, 2025

Bomb Threats Haiku

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another wave of bomb threats and yet... cherry blossoms Asahi Haikuist Network, April 4 2025
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Abused Body and Mind Haiku

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her abused body inside the inside of her mind The Bamboo Hut, 2025
Monday, February 3, 2025

Mob of Crows and Riot Police Tanka

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a mob of crows cawing in the wintry sky ... a phalanx of policemen in riot gear NeverEnding Story, January 3 2025 Added: the rust-colored tw...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Hushed Silence Haiku

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steady dut, dut, dut ... hushed silence between what if and what if not Cold Moon Journal, December 2 2024
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Why hast thou forsaken me?

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In the back of a dimly lit storage room, the man in his cassock stands behind a half-naked boy, bent over. Good Friday service this white-ha...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Shelter Window Tanka

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a girl sticks her tongue out at snowflakes her mother's smiling face in the shelter window NeverEnding Story, October 17 2024 FYI: For m...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Border Wall Haiku

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the border wall after gunshots after rain German Translation by Chrysanthemum Editorial Team die Grenzmauer nach Schüssen nach dem Regen Chr...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Distant Gunshots Haiku

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distant gunshots then silence a falling blossom Fireflies' Light, April, 2024
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Same Bloody Spot Tanka

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written on Juneteenth a Black man cried, and cried out for his mother then went quiet ... years later my friend is stopped and frisked on th...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Tiananmen Square Tanka

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reading between the lives and writing between the lines , LXXXIII Beijingers, young and old stroll along Tiananmen Square [everything's ...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

Boxing Ring Kyoka

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in the ring jabs, missed punches and clenches ... round after round I fight my drunken shadow Failed Haiku, 8:96, December 2023
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Re-Homing Tanka

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Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, XXII : "punitive house demolition" bulldozed house now a bundle of belongings on the be...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Gun Control Debate Senryu

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gun control debate   they point at each other   with finger pistols   Fireflies' Light, October 2023
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Old Dog's Stare Haiku

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the quiver of a crime-scene tape an old dog's stare Shot Glass Journal, 41, 2023