Poetry in the Moment: Night Shift Tanka

Friday, December 18, 2015

Night Shift Tanka

coming home
from the night shift...
a blanket
of snowy loneliness
covers my shadow and me

German Translation by Tony Böhle

auf dem Weg nach Haus
von der Nachtschicht…
eine Decke
verschneiter Einsamkeit
bedeckt meinen Schatten und mich

Featured Poet, Einunddreissig, November 2015

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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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