written on June 4th
a lone man stood
in front of a column of tanks ...
vigil ban in Hong Kong
police phalanx
some hundred smartphone flashlights
near Victoria Park
candle lights flicker
in the rooming house window
exiled HongKongers
FYI: The US and EU consulates in Hong Kong lit candles in their office windows on Friday to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre...Hong Kong Free Press, June 4
35,000
vaccines hit the landfill
in Detroit ...
under the smoky skies
rows of pyres in Delhi
vaccines hit the landfill
in Detroit ...
under the smoky skies
rows of pyres in Delhi
I just added one more haiku (the concluding one) to the sequence. Below is the revised haiku sequence:
ReplyDeleteRemembrance Is A Crime
written on June 4th
a lone man stood
in front of a column of tanks ...
vigil ban in Hong Kong
police phalanx
some hundred smartphone flashlights
near Victoria Park
candle lights flicker
in the rooming house window
exiled HongKongers
The following is my tanka about this courageous "tank man:"
Deleteon CNN
a young Chinese man
stands alone
to block a line of tanks
I stand behind him, watching
A Hundred Gourds, 1:3, June 2012