Poetry in the Moment: The Years of Living Consciously

Monday, September 29, 2014

The Years of Living Consciously

baking
in the summer heat
I wonder
how to pronounce
my new name, Chen-ou Liu

no more migrants
chanted in Bible-belt rhythm ...
I tell him,
I am Taiwanese,
a "legal alien"

maple leaves
gleam and darken
on the tree
should I stay
or should I go?

a red light
flashing at the crossroad ...
I've been living
too long for a single dream
echoes in the winter air

NeverEnding Story, September 5, 2014

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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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The Years of Living Consciously

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