MAY 9, expressing depression (five terse verses)

 

TODAY'S POEMS (senryu  *) 

DEPRESSING POEM #1

look beyond 50! 

Puerto Rico, Guam, D.C. --

democracy snuffed.

Giorgio Coniglio

DEPRESSING POEM #2

a president's whim?

Congress should manage tariffs,

a consumption tax.

Giorgio Coniglio

DEPRESSING POEM #3

Greenland, Panama;

imperial impulses  --

whiffs of narcissism.

Giorgio Coniglio

DEPRESSING POEM #4

these eggs cost too much;

the global order has failed.

"Let's start a trade war."

Giorgio Coniglio

DEPRESSING POEM #5

collaborators

encourage unhinged despots.

who is most to blame?

Giorgio Coniglio

* learn more HERE about senryu, a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

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