Poetry in the Moment: Midnight Moon Tanka

Sunday, January 26, 2020

Midnight Moon Tanka

midnight moon
hanging low in the sky
on the way home
a shadow leads me
into my fortieth year

Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta

真夜中の月
空に低くかかっている
帰宅途中に
影が私を導いていく
私の40年目に

Akita International Haiku Network, March 30, 2019

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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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