Poetry in the Moment: A Tanka about Time's Passing

Sunday, October 31, 2010

A Tanka about Time's Passing

English Original:

yesterday
will be the same
for tomorrow never changes –
the kite of my days
cut from the string of Life

Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta

昨日また明日も変わらず同じかな我が世の凧は糸切られけり

Akita International Haiku Network (Oct. 30, 2010)

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My book is now available through www.lulu.com [Liu's] haiku resonates the Asian spirit, and makes use of aesthetics in a continuum of time that is permanent and impermanent; the process more important than the subjective specificity of object bias found in most Anglo-Western haiku like poems. His poetry demand to be interpreted by the informed reader. They do not tell all, are not based on an “aha” moment, and have no definitive ending. More importantly they give meaning and voice to the unsaid, the magic inherent in Japanese poetry. -- Poetry Review by Robert D. Wilson, Editor-in-chief of Simply Haiku.

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