Poetry in the Moment: Pregnant Teen Tanka

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Pregnant Teen Tanka

the playground
filling with laughter
and gossip …
a pregnant teen waddles
behind her toddler

Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta

遊園地
笑いに満ちている
そして噂話．．．
妊娠している十代の子がよたよた歩く
よちよち歩きの幼児の後を

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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