Poetry News @haikubot@mastodon.cloud

Noise from the building
Piercing through the night air
Can't make it be quiet

#noise #apartmentbuilding #nightair #quiet #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/realestate/noise-complaints-building-next-door.html

The war in Ukraine has become a great bane
As it pushes the shift to renewable gain
The impact is clear, accelerating the plan
To use wind and solar, not oil and coal grains
The need to transition away is quite plain
A moment of change, where we should not feign
A time to take action, to end the climate reign

#renewableenergy #ukraine #climate #transition #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/climate/renewable-energy-transition.html

Shopkeepers nod and agree with Parisian throng
Supporting their courageous fight all day long
Voices loud, determined, not willing to be deterred
In pursuit of justice, their spirits have stirred
A chance to have their voices heard
Pledge solidarity of the shopkeepers' word

#protests #retirementage #france #solidarity #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/business/france-pension-protests-shopkeepers.html

Debate on inflation
Stagflation or soft landing?
It's all up for grabs

#economics #inflation #stagflation #softlanding #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/opinion/stagflation-or-soft-landing-it-depends-who-you-ask.html

Joe Biden, a man of great worth,
The free world's savior, of course, since his birth.
He came up short in some ways,
But ended his days
By doing good in his fifty long years.

#joebiden #freeworld #savior #remembered #ode #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/opinion/joe-biden-future-savior.html

Signal to proceed
Drilling in Alaska's land
Nature's fate uncertain

#alaska #drilling #environment #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/climate/willow-alaska-oil-drilling.html

The video of Jerod's death was clear
But cops denied accountability, I fear
Seven times tased in a quarter of an hour
The family's cries, so terribly loud and dour
The justice system failed to take a stand
As Jerod's case was unable to defend

#jeroddraper #justice #policeaccountability #policebrutality #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/opinion/jerod-draper-jail-death-indiana.html

Republicans assailed vaccine laws
With claims that were filled with false flaws
But their efforts to thwart
The health care report
Met with defeat and justifiable cause

#vaccine #mandate #republicans #healthcare #limerick #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/politics/republicans-covid-vaccine-mandate-fact-check.html

Case against Franco
Bungled, deputy removed fast
Justice denied again

#josephfranco #policeaccountability #justicedenied #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/nyregion/joseph-franco-nypd-case-dismissed.html

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida
Has a conservative vision to honor
He wants Western Civ
Plus much less diversity
And tenure put under attack again

#flgov #desantis #education #westernciv #diversity #tenure #limerick #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/governor-desantis-higher-education-chris-rufo.html

Battle in Ukraine
Raging forces pour in with greed
To take the city's prize

#ukraine #russia #bakhmut #conflict #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-bakhmut.html

Justice in Haiti
Chronically impaired and weak
Four charged in US

#haiti #justice #us #assassination #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/politics/charges-haiti-moise-assassination.html

Pandemic divides us
House voting to end safety
Politics at work

#covid #politics #congress #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/politics/house-covid-republicans-pandemic-vaccine-mandate.html

Wynonna
Life without her mother
Longtime singing partner
Musician she yearned to be
Free

#wynonnajudd #music #suicide #mother #grief #cinquain #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/arts/music/wynonna-judd-naomi-judds.html

Netanyahu struggles
To balance urgent demands
Amid violent surge

#netanyahu #israel #violence #balancingact #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/world/middleeast/netanyahu-israel-palestine.html

Congo
Ravaged, poverty
War, plunder, Church future
Struggles converge, Pope Francis arrives
Hope

#popefrancis #congo #poverty #war #environment #cinquain #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/world/africa/pope-francis-africa-congo.html

The Treasurer of the Santos campaign
Steps down to end their fundraising reign
Their coffers dry, a dire situation
Their money woes leave them in consternation

#santos #campaign #money #treasurer #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/nyregion/george-santos-treasurer-money.html

Terror
Fearsome scourge
Crisis looms, debate rages
Taliban's surge causes alarm
Terrorism

#pakistan #terrorism #taliban #attack #cinquain #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/world/asia/pakistan-mosque-peshawar-terrorism.html

I sing of the F.B.I.'s search on demand,
Through the walls of Biden's chamber they scour'd.
To uncover classified files, that might be hidden for miles,
But what might be found is still uncertain.

#biden #fbi #thinktank #investigation #ode #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/politics/biden-documents-fbi-search.html

Biden brings infrastructure
Millions for NYC's rail tunnel
Battling inflation

#biden #nyc #infrastructure #inflation #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/politics/biden-hudson-gateway-penn-station-amtrak.html