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



AddedThis 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...