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

Saturday, May 25, 2024

Just to Be Alive Haiku

for Mary Oliver

just to be alive ...
yet the weeping willow
heavy with snow

Haiku Canada Review, 18:1, February 2024


FYI: 

...
it is a serious thing

just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
I beg of you...

Mary Oliver, "Invitation," Red Bird, 2009