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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, February 16, 2023

paper Dove Haiku

a paper dove

on the barbed wire fence

gathering dark

Brass Bell, December 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 2:28 PM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, violence

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Snow Squalls Haiku

snow squalls as usual the silence after our squabble

Brass Bell, November 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:43 AM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, relationship, silence, snow

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Human Body Senryu

housewarming cake

the neighbor’s knife rack shaped

like a human body

Brass Bell, October 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 11:13 AM

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Labels: brass bell, relationship, senryu

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Leftovers Haiku

leftovers

on the kitchen table . . .

things half-spoken

Brass Bell, October 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 5:32 PM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, relationship

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Old Map of Taipei Haiku

old map of Taipei ...

lost again in the backstreets

of my mind

Brass Bell, September 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 12:18 PM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, nostalgia, Taiwan

Friday, October 28, 2022

Moonlight Lapping Haiku

moonlight lapping

against the Pacific shore

the home left behind

Brass Bell, August 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:04 AM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, home, immigration, moon, nostalgia, the Pacific

Friday, October 14, 2022

Rusty Gate Haiku

the clatter

of this rusty gate

foreclosure

Brass Bell, July 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:19 PM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, recession

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

May Snow Haiku

silence between us the phone lines sagging with May snow

Brass Bell, June 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 10:28 AM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, relationship, silence, snow

Monday, September 12, 2022

Misty Lake Haiku

misty lake drifting between loon calls

Brass Bell, June 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 3:17 PM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, mist, nature

Friday, August 5, 2022

Chanting Haiku

the end

of the old monk’s chanting

tea time for one

Brass Bell, May, 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 11:01 AM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, religion

Saturday, June 11, 2022

Rainbow Bubbles Haiku

summer breeze

my daughter dances to the rhythm

of rainbow bubbles

Brass Bell, April 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 3:19 PM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, relationship, summer

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Sunlit Lake Haiku

sunlit lake

my niece jumps into the sound

of laughter

Brass Bell, March 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 4:10 PM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, relationship

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Blizzard Haiku

blizzardalonetogetherduringrushhour

Brass Bee, February 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 2:07 PM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, life, winter

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Snow Geese and My Journey Haiku

snow geese

unzip the morning sky

my journey starts

Brass Bell, January, 2022

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 1:43 PM

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Labels: brass bell, geese, haiku, journey

Saturday, December 4, 2021

A Broken Hoop Haiku

jump shots

on a broken hoop ...

late night drizzle

Brass Bell, December 2021

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:45 PM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, play, rain

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Scent of Ocean Haiku

end of summer

the scent of ocean

still in her hair

Brass Bell, November, 2021

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:32 PM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, summer

Saturday, October 2, 2021

Hush of Early Snow Haiku

hush of early snow

one more white lie

added to her complaints

Brass Bell, October 2021

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 5:19 PM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, relationship, snow

Friday, October 1, 2021

Melon Vendor Haiku

two for one ... three for one

the melon vendor's mask

under his chin

Brass Bell, October 2021

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:13 PM

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Labels: brass bell, coronavirus, disaster, haiku, illness

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Zazen Haiku

zazen ...

thoughts of my ex

come and go

Brass Bell, September 2021

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 2:25 PM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, relationship, religion

Saturday, August 14, 2021

In and Out of Memory Haiku

smoky twilight

grandpa slips in and out

of memory

Brass Bell, August 2021

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 7:04 PM

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Labels: brass bell, haiku, illness, memory

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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.

Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

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