A Room of My Own: A Moving US Plane Tanka

This Brave New World, XVII

to Joe Biden

last Americans

lifted off the embassy roof

in Saigon --

now some hundred Afghans

cling to a moving US plane

FYI: The Hill, August 17: Democrat on Biden's claim some Afghans didn't want to leave earlier: 'Utter BS'

Added: Two Hundred and Fifty-First Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

I trust God

to be my shield and healer 

loud and louder ...

holding his cross, a patient stares

at masked doctors and nurses

Added: Two Hundred and Fifty-Second Entry

lockdown lifted

boys and girls rolling downhill

into squeals of laughter 

Added: Two Hundred and Fifty-Third Entry

written in response to Canadian snap pandemic election

politicians

crisscrossing from coast to coast 

Alpha, Beta, Delta ...