Poetry in the Moment: Birdsong Tanka

Friday, March 29, 2013

Birdsong Tanka

one bird song
after another ...
alone
in the waters of spring
thoughts of her flow away

Croatian translation

pjesm a jedne ptice
nakon druge
sam
u proljetnim vodama
misli o njoj oticu

First Prize, Spring Tanka 2013

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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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