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

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Midnight Fireworks Haiku

I look at the sky
having lost another year ...
midnight fireworks



Added: This Brave New World, CXXXV 

firework after firework
as the clock has struck midnight
rainbow flowers 
light up Toronto's sky
unlike the one over Gaza


Added: This Brave New World, CXXXVI
for 12-year-old Palestinian girl, Layan Abu Kuwaik

my home town
in a new year's dream
sun-dappled hills


FYI: Democracy Now, Jan.2 : Death Toll in Gaza Tops 22,000 as Biden Bypasses Congress to Send More Munitions to Israel

...God willing, in 2024, I wish when I wake up on January 1st to discover that this was all a dream, to wake up at home on January 1st, for the war to end, for our suffering to end, for this tragedy to end...