Poetry in the Moment: Nostalgia Tanka

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Nostalgia Tanka

English Original:

a blue bird
darts into blossoms and out
unsettled
I wander and yearn
my hometown an ocean away

Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta

青い鳥花へ飛びこみ落ち着かず我さすらいて故郷慕う

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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