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

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Gliding Kayaks Tanka

gliding kayaks ...
ripple after ripple
overlapping
summer stars that bridge
what words never could



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one tide cycle
after another and another
across the Pacific 
pulling out, returning anew ...
my heart still on the other shore


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to stay or to go
I murmur to myself
again and again 
through the autumn wind 
each leaf zigzags its way down


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all things must pass,
the seasons teach me this —
yet I still press
my face into her lingerie
forgotten in the basket