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Butterfly Dream: Rain Barrel Haiku by Travis Park - *English Original* rain barrel a cloud settles into itself *LEAF*, 10, July 2026 Travis Park *Chinese Translation (Traditional)* 雨桶一朵雲沉入雲層中 *Chinese...

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Thursday, September 22, 2022

Gathering Dark Haiku

gathering dark ...

the last ravens slide

into it

Shamrock, 48, 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:45 AM

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Labels: haiku, raven, Shamrock

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Laid Off Senryu

laid off ...

I watch the snow

falling on snow

Best Senryu, Shamrock Haiku Journal Readers' Choice Awards 2021

FYI: The poem was first published in Shamrock, 46, 2021

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 10:13 AM

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Labels: award, job, senryu, Shamrock, snow

Friday, November 5, 2021

Roadside Cross Haiku

the rustle

of faded flowers...

roadside cross

Shamrock, 46, 2021

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 2:41 PM

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Labels: death, haiku, Shamrock

Thursday, November 4, 2021

Snow Falling on Snow Haiku

laid off...

I watch the snow

falling on snow

Shamrock, 46, 2021

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 10:12 AM

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Labels: haiku, job, Shamrock, snow

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Self-Quarantine Haiku

self-quarantine

the backyard dogwood
in bloom

Shamrock, 44, 2020

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 7:58 PM

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Labels: coronavirus, disaster, haiku, illness, nature, Shamrock

Friday, November 6, 2020

Selected Haiku: Jagged Moon Haiku

jagged moon

in every window ...

prison riot

Shamrock, 37, 2017

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 3:02 PM

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Labels: haiku, moon, SH, Shamrock

Saturday, January 11, 2020

Selected Haiku: Talk of War Haiku

beads of sunlight
along a blade of grass ...
this talk of war

Shamrock, 35, 2016

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 10:22 AM

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Labels: haiku, SH, Shamrock, war

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Twilight Fog Haiku

silhouettes
in the twilight fog
a raven's call

Shamrock, 42, 2019

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 10:32 AM

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Labels: fog, haiku, raven, Shamrock

Monday, November 11, 2019

Old Train Tracks Haiku

a full moon
the old train tracks
into my childhood

Shamrock, 42, 2019

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:47 AM

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Labels: haiku, memory, moon, Shamrock

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Selected Senryu: Viagra Billboard Senryu

in the shade
of a Viagra billboard
an old couple

Shamrock, 33, 2016

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 10:32 AM

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Labels: relationship, senryu, sex, Shamrock, SS

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

First Sip Haiku

first sip of tea

bare cedar branches

cup the moon

Shamrock, 40, 2018; reprint Ardea, 8, 2023

Chinese Translation

第一口茶

光禿的雪松樹枝

撐住一輪明月

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:02 AM

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Labels: Ardea, haiku, moon, nature, Shamrock, translation

Friday, July 20, 2018

Selected Haiku: Long Howl Haiku

midnight moon ...
one long howl
and then no more

Shamrock, 29, October 2014

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 7:46 AM

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Labels: haiku, moon, SH, Shamrock

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Selected Haiku: Snowflakes Haiku

first snowflakes ...
the silence drifts
into my room

Shamrock, 27, 2014

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:10 AM

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Labels: haiku, SH, Shamrock, silence, snow

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Selected Haiku: Winter Gusts Haiku

my shadow
pushing the bicycle
winter gusts

Shamrock, 26, Fall 2013

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 10:06 AM

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Labels: haiku, SH, shadow, Shamrock, winter

Friday, September 29, 2017

Selected Haiku: Womanhood Haiku

the moan of a dove
I trace the curves
of her womanhood

Shamrock, 24, Spring 2013

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:33 AM

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Labels: haiku, relationship, sex, SH, Shamrock

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Jagged Moon Haiku

jagged moon
in every window ...
prison riot

Shamrock, 37, 2017

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 5:33 PM

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Labels: haiku, moon, Shamrock, sociopolitic, violence

Hospital Window Haiku

hospital window
the morning drifts along
with snowflakes

Shamrock, 37, 2017

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:08 AM

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Labels: haiku, illness, Shamrock, snow

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Selected Haiku: Crow's Cry haiku

a crow's cry...
the village stillness
deepens

Shamrock, 21, Spring 2012

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:31 PM

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Labels: crow, haiku, SH, Shamrock

Friday, October 7, 2016

Steady Fall of Snow Haiku

steady fall of snow
the silence between me
and my old dog

Shamrock, 35, 2016

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:46 AM

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Labels: dog, haiku, Shamrock, silence, snow

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Talk of War Haiku

beads of sunlight
along a blade of grass ...
this talk of war

Shamrock, 35, 2016

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:04 AM

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Labels: haiku, man-nature, Shamrock, war

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Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐: Born in Taipei,Taiwan, Chen-ou Liu was a college teacher, essayist, editor,and two-time winner of the national Best Book Review Radio Program Award.In 2002,he emigrated to Canada and settled in Ajax,a suburb of Toronto. Featured in New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, and listed as one of the top ten haiku poets for 2011(Simply Haiku, 9:3,4, Autumn/Winter 2011),Chen-ou Liu is the author of five books, including Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Contest). His tanka and haiku have been honored with 170 awards,including First Prize Co-Winner, 7th and 8th International Tanka Festival Competition, 2012; Tanka First and Third Places, 2011 San Francisco International Competition; Grand Prix, 2010 Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest and First Prize Co-Winner, 2010 Haiku International Association Haiku Contest.

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Broken/Breaking English: Selected Short Poems

My book is now available through Lulu.This collection of short poems is filled with themes of immigration, learning English, racialized identity, and a poet’s life struggles.

Following the Moon to the Maple Land

My book (First Prize Winner of the Spring 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) is now available through http://www.haikupix.com/ You are one of the most lyric haikuists in our worldwide haiku family. You have the gift of tugging at our hearts. I can see why so many of your haiku have won awards. -- Neal Whitman, renowned American poet

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.

A New Resonance 7

A New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku edited by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts. I'm featured in this anthology and have 15 haiku included in it. This is the seventh volume in a series that has won the Haiku Society of America's Merit Book Award in each of its first six appearances.

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