Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Moon Haiku

Lake Ontario water
cupped in my hand --
Formosa ’s moon


A handful of stones (21.4.2010)

(Note: In 1544, a Portuguese ship sighted the main island of Taiwan and named it Ilha Formosa , which means " Beautiful Island ")