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

Monday, April 28, 2025

Why Me Tanka

I keep asking
why me? there's no rhythm
to this life,
its days like today scattered 
by Fate among the rest



Added:

life is short
my Spotify list remains long ...
and yet 
this loveless morning 
alone with birdsong 


Added:

at 3 a.m.
sleepless once again ...
this crescent moon
this gray-haired stranger
in the bedroom window


FYI: In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
         -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up


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the sunlight fades
into the gathering dark
another day 
will ends with nothing new
in my life and on my mind