Poetry in the Moment: Chinese New Year Tanka

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Chinese New Year Tanka

coming home
after a long day of work
we say awkwardly
gong xi fa cai !
with the fish for only two

Bright Stars, I: An Organic Tanka Anthology, 2014

Note: The Chinese phrase, "gong xi fa cai !," means wishing you a prosperous new year!

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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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