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

Sunday, June 2, 2019

Selected Haiku: After-Party Haiku

after-party
we blow out candles
to hear the stars


Note: My poem above alludes to  the following haiku by Peggy Willis Lyles who helped me to publish my first English language haiku in the September 2009 issue of The Heron's Nest:

summer night
we turn out all the lights
to hear the rain