all night long
the motel’s vacancy sign
blinking on and off …
her absence leaves a hole
in my wandering heart
Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta
一晩中
モーテルの空き室の表示が
明滅している...
彼女の不在が空洞を残す
私のさ迷っている心の中に
Akita International Haiku Network, March 30, 2019
Reading More and Writing Better: Yawp of "USA!" Tanka by Chen-ou Liu
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a lament for Walt Whitman's America
to cameras
*no, more wars! *the chant
echoes, echoing
around the Congress chamber
swelled with the yawp of *USA!*
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