Poetry in the Moment: Snow Tanka

Monday, April 11, 2011

Snow Tanka

English Original:

awakened
from my butterfly dream
snowflakes
lighten
into dawn

German Translation by Dietmar Tauchner:

erwacht
aus meinem Schmetterlingstraum
Schneeflocken
leuchten
in die Morgendämmerung

Chrysanthemum, 9

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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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