history, photography, politics, tanka

July 4, Then and Now

Started in 1776!
|Flag waved in fresh breeze.
|Holding truths self-evident,
|a nation broke free.
|~ ~ ~ ~
|Our dream fought to be real, with
|liberty and justice for all.

IMG_7742_rot-4.1_crop_flip_840x839 LimpFlag_flip_crop.1_sat-70_eclps+15_blem_840x1124

Ended soon after 2025?
|Limp flag.  Stifling heat.
|None but straight white wealthy males
|created equal.
|~ ~ ~ ~
|Fascist crook will make it so,
|if we all submit to him.

With some revisions, the pair of tanka that I posted for Independence Day in 2024 is still all-too appropriate now, half a year into Trump 2.0.
– Gray button (upper left corner) reveals widgets, –
– above post (on phone) or beside it (on desktop). –

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