Poetry in the Moment: Promised Land Tanka

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Promised Land Tanka

our eyes meet
through the fast food window …
does this vagrant
see in me an immigrant
homeless in the promised land?

German Translation

unsere Augen treffen sich
durchs Schnellimbißfenster ...
ob dieser Vagabund
in mir einen Einwanderer sieht
heimatlos im gelobten Land

Chrysanthemum, 19, April 2016

Ripples from a Splash

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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