Poetry in the Moment: Midnight Sky Tanka

Monday, February 5, 2024

Midnight Sky Tanka

night shift over

on the long way home

I take for friend

a sliver of moon

in the midnight sky

Croatian Translation

nakon noćne smjene

na dugom putu doma

prijatelju nosim

tračak mjeseca

na ponoćnom nebu

Iris International, 9, 2023

Ripples from a Splash

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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