My Dear Poet Friends:
In this year of elections (4 billion people will cast a vote in over 60 countries), the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol not only finds the country in "what arguably ranks among the highest stakes political, legal and constitutional junctures in America's history," but also exerts its far-reaching influence at international level.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, "poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty."
-- Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet, playwright and translator who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
And
Poetry can act as a witness in, to, and most importantly, through troubled times.
-- Chen-ou Liu
Game Show 2024, XXXIV
indicted
more times than Al Capone
this big-mouthed man
on the trail and on trial
thronged by his wannabes
Look forward to reading your haiku and tanka.
The accepted haiku and tanka will be translated into Chinese and posted on NeverEnding Story and Twitter. And you are welcome to follow me on Twitter at @ericcoliu (6 following, 4566 followers). For more details, see submission guidelines for haiku and tanka
Happy Writing
Chen-ou
FYI: Al Capone, also in/famously known as "Scarface," a crime boss who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931. Federal authorities became intent on jailing Capone and charged him with twenty-two counts of tax evasion. He was convicted of five counts in 1931.
And Donald Trump faces a total of 91 charges across four criminal cases. They include 44 federal charges and 47 state charges, all of them felonies.
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