Poetry in the Moment: Yellow Leaf Tanka

Monday, January 30, 2017

Yellow Leaf Tanka

go back
to where you came from ...
a yellow leaf
tossing and turning
with each gust of wind

Chinese Translation

你從哪裡來
就滾回哪裡去 ...
一片黃色葉子
在每一陣風吹來吹去中
不停地翻轉和滾動

Featured Poet, Coviews, January, 2017

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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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