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One Man's Maple Moon: Cold Light Tanka by Sonam Chhoki - *English Original* throbbing headache blinds drawn against the dawn I picture in the rise and fall of notes birds flitting in the cold light *A Hundred Gou...

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Monday, August 10, 2026

Forest Bathing Trail Haiku

forest bathing trail ...

the scent of dappled sunlight

and birdsong

Cafe Haiku, April 27 2026

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:28 AM

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Labels: Cafe Haiku, haiku, nature

Sunday, August 9, 2026

Great Blue Heron Haiku

lone great blue heron

crack after crack splitting

the frozen river

Cafe Haiku, April 27 2026

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:24 AM

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Labels: Cafe Haiku, haiku, nature

Saturday, August 8, 2026

Lone Bear Haiku

a lone bear

wind-sculpted ice cliff

in twilight

Cafe Haiku, April 27 2026

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 10:12 AM

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Labels: Cafe Haiku, haiku, nature

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Wax Museum Senryu

the room

full of selfie sticks

wax museum

Cafe Haiku, March 10, 2025

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 3:21 PM

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Labels: Cafe Haiku, haiku, urban life

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Tai Chi Master Haiku

city park at dawn

I jog from one tai chi master

to another

Cafe Haiku, March 10, 2025

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 11:09 AM

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Labels: Cafe Haiku, haiku, urban life

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Here and Now Haiku

Grand Canyon sunrise ...

learning to love

here and now

Cafe Haiku, March 10, 2025

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 10:11 AM

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Labels: Cafe Haiku, haiku, man-nature

Sunday, October 27, 2024

From Sleet to Snow Haiku

sleet turns to snow

the coldness of tonight

without her

Cafe Haiku, August 10, 2024

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 10:42 AM

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Labels: Cafe Haiku, haiku, relationship, snow

Saturday, October 26, 2024

North Wind Haiku

another year ...

the howl of the north wind

through more gravestones

Cafe Haiku, August 10, 2024

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 11:23 AM

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Labels: Cafe Haiku, deaths, haiku

Friday, October 25, 2024

Budding Snowdrops Haiku

budding snowdrops

in my old neighbor's garden

For Sale sign

Cafe Haiku, August 10, 2024

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:24 AM

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Labels: Cafe Haiku, economics, haiku, man-nature

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Summit Haiku

fiftieth birthday

halfway to the summit

in silence

Cafe Haiku, August 10, 2024

reprinted in Cold Moon Journal, September 5, 2024

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 3:58 PM

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Labels: Cafe Haiku, haiku, man-nature, silence

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Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐: Born in Taipei,Taiwan, Chen-ou Liu was a college teacher, essayist, editor,and two-time winner of the national Best Book Review Radio Program Award.In 2002,he emigrated to Canada and settled in Ajax,a suburb of Toronto. Featured in New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, and listed as one of the top ten haiku poets for 2011(Simply Haiku, 9:3,4, Autumn/Winter 2011),Chen-ou Liu is the author of five books, including Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Contest). His tanka and haiku have been honored with 170 awards,including First Prize Co-Winner, 7th and 8th International Tanka Festival Competition, 2012; Tanka First and Third Places, 2011 San Francisco International Competition; Grand Prix, 2010 Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest and First Prize Co-Winner, 2010 Haiku International Association Haiku Contest.

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Broken/Breaking English: Selected Short Poems

My book is now available through Lulu.This collection of short poems is filled with themes of immigration, learning English, racialized identity, and a poet’s life struggles.

Following the Moon to the Maple Land

My book (First Prize Winner of the Spring 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) is now available through http://www.haikupix.com/ You are one of the most lyric haikuists in our worldwide haiku family. You have the gift of tugging at our hearts. I can see why so many of your haiku have won awards. -- Neal Whitman, renowned American poet

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.

A New Resonance 7

A New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku edited by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts. I'm featured in this anthology and have 15 haiku included in it. This is the seventh volume in a series that has won the Haiku Society of America's Merit Book Award in each of its first six appearances.

Poetry in the Moment

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

Monday, August 10, 2026

Forest Bathing Trail Haiku

Sunday, August 9, 2026

Great Blue Heron Haiku

Saturday, August 8, 2026

Lone Bear Haiku

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Wax Museum Senryu

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Tai Chi Master Haiku

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Here and Now Haiku

Sunday, October 27, 2024

From Sleet to Snow Haiku

Saturday, October 26, 2024

North Wind Haiku

Friday, October 25, 2024

Budding Snowdrops Haiku

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Summit Haiku

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Selected Works of Chen-ou Liu

About the Poet

Broken/Breaking English: Selected Short Poems

Following the Moon to the Maple Land

Ripples from a Splash

A New Resonance 7

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