A Room of My Own: Inside Buckingham Tanka

inside Buckingham

nine men and women with arms linked

wear black T-shirts

with single, yellow letters 

declaring, Not My King

FYI: This tanka is a sequel to the concluding tanka below of my tanka sequence,The Coronation 

TamponGate Prince

one of Britain's richest men 

now crowned with praise

around the Palace's dark corner

open secrets of family feud

And this civic protest was the "first-ever" one inside Buckingham Palace. For more, CNN, September 23: "Anti-monarchy campaigners stage protest inside Buckingham Palace"

“The protest is the latest in a series of actions aimed at pushing forward the debate about the future of the monarchy,” Republic, Britain’s largest anti-monarchist group,  said in a statement.

The group said six of the activists involved were briefly detained by security, before being escorted out of the front gate.

Added: Re-Homing in the Maple Land, XIII

white-hot anger

on another rent hike ...

in this rooming house 

the diary is a place of my own

where I can live freely

Added:

these years of longing

for something 

I can't articulate ...

one stretch of books

on top of another

Added: Re-Homing in the Maple Land, XIV

this leafy path

once our lovers' lane

in dappled shade

a pair of white doves flying

over Private Property