Poetry in the Moment: Traffic Noise Tanka

Monday, December 21, 2015

Traffic Noise Tanka

you're not tuned
into me anymore...
I take her hand
as the traffic noise
filters over us

German Translation by Tony Böhle

du bist nicht mehr
auf meiner Wellenlänge…
ich nehme ihre Hand
als der Verkehrslärm
sich über uns legt

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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