Poetry in the Moment: Mirror Tanka

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

English Original:

gazing
in the mirror
a stranger
stares back at me
a man with no eyes

Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta

鏡見る見知らぬ人が見返して我を見つめる目のない男

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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