Saturday, April 18, 2026

A Room of My Own: Past and Present, Then Ever

cherry blossoms 
always the same, and yet
ever new with you

pink blossom rain
the space where you used to be
pink blossom rain


Added: 

a riverside stroll
pink blossom rain on my face
on a homeless man


FYI: This could be read as a counter poem to my award-winning haiku below:

blossom rain
between earth and sky
somehow, us

Grand Prize, Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest, 2026


Added:

midnight crescent
in a Beirut boy's eyes
buzzing drones


Added:

repeat after me
Trum pi no cchi o ...
the clown taps his nose


Added: Politics of Distraction, IX:

blocking the blockade
to break the strait blockade ...
in gathering dark
a gin-soaked flight to nowhere
through the un/truth of this war


Added: Trump Empire, Inc, XCII

            Donald Trump
                 $20,28 per gallon
             America First
the MAGA-hatted man’s stare
bores holes through his lawn sign


FYI: This tanka could be read as a sequel to mine below:

Law is the King

Trump Empire, Inc, XC
written for No Kings protests

just a dream, and yet ...
the mountain lion roars
to grazing sheep:
once elected as your King
I'll be vegetarian

the peanut-brained man
behind the Resolute Desk
grins to cameras,
just a little excursion...
oily clouds over Tehran

how much bullshit
can come out of one ass-hole
a veteran’s refrain
cracks and booms through iron bars
at the White House gate

the Capitol fence
shadowed against the sky
in twilight chill
lineups snake at the pumps
and at food banks too

chant after chant
of eggflation, fried truth
scrambled justice ...
a mutt's neck sign: I can poop
a better president


FYI: The title alludes to the famous quote from Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense: In America, THE LAW IS KING.


Added:

on the road to work  
I push through the white drift—  
cold snap pressing in


Added:

to T.S. Eliot

curtains part
snow-wet roofs mirroring
April twilight


FYI: This could be read as a sequel my gembun below:

April is the cruelest month, I murmur to myself

drinking alone
the sound of snowfall
deepens



Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXCII: "P/Crime Minister"
written on Israel's Independence Day

behind the shroud
of "our hero warriors"
the P/Crime Minister
spills the Castro-length 
blah, blah, blah on victory


Added: No More Fairy Tales, LIII
written on War-Ravaged Earth Day

Hormuz twilight
one pond of oily black
after another

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