NeverEnding Story: Call for "Biting NOT Barking" Poetry Submissions

My Dear Fellow Poets:

All art has its share in truth insofar as it serves as a transcript of human suffering.

-- Theodor Adorno

What Theodor Adorno admires in an artwork is not its illusory transcendence but its capacity to transcribe in its very form the suffering and imperfection of the surrounding world. 

-- Harvard intellectual historian Peter Gordon

And

Strive to change the world in such a way that there’s no further need to be a dissident. Read between the lives, and write between the lines. "Be committed to something outside yourself."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Poetry as Insurgent Art"

Between Heaven and Hell, III

first visual magical realist tanka

USADecides:

TheSecondDumbing 

theredhotheadline

morphsintomarching

phalanxafterphalanx

(FYI: For more examples, see "To the Lighthouse: Magical Realism in Times of Crises")

Between Heaven and Hell, XVII

Tanka Two of "Making America Trump Again"

once blood-stained

the Capitol's arched portal ...

in one day

the Convicted Felon will take

(the oath and) the Power

And I would like to share with you the following haiku sequence, the first entry of my new writing project, "On the Brink of Trumperica," a sequel to "Between Heaven and Hell"

On the Brink of Trumperica, I

America. Is. Back

southern magnolias

filtering the day's last light 

the White House in shadow

the winter sun falls

from a darkening sky

the Truman Balcony

one old man walks out

another moves in with Money

Arctic blasts

FYI: Among the [symbolically rich] trees on the White House Grounds, the oldest ones, southern magnolias, were planted by Andrew Jackson in 1829. And another southern magnolia was planted by Joe Biden in 2022.

And Wikipedia, Truman Balcony: The Truman Balcony is the second-floor balcony of the Executive Residence of the White House, which overlooks the South Lawn. It was completed in March 1948, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman...In a September 2012 interview in Vanity Fair, President Barack Obama listed the balcony as his and his wife Michelle Obama's favorite spot in the White House.

Look forward to reading your "biting NOT barking" poetry (See haiku and tanka submission guidelines)

Chen-ou