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

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Halo Haiku

this halo
around the harvest moon ...
lottery day 



FYI: This could be read as a prequel to my senryu below:

soup kitchen
a gray-haired man scratching
his lottery ticket



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midnight unease
I open shutters to a stream
of moonlight 


Added:

a gray-haired migrant
looks at his hands and feet ...
pumpkin harvest


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sunlight through stained glass ...
not eye for eye
but turning the other cheek


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where oil wells were
the old map is thick with dust ...
solar farm at dawn


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another sunshine
yet, this haze
of might-have-beens