Poetry in the Moment: Haiku News

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Monday, August 8, 2016

Selected Kyoka: God's Will Kyoka

a homeless man
leans against the sidewall
of a church...
the priest and his elders
argue about God's will

Haiku News, Feb. 4, 2011

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Selected Haiku: Milky Way Haiku

Milky Way…
bit by bit I put myself
out of my mind

Haiku News, July, 18, 2010

Comment by Jack Galmitz: A first rate haiku. The contrast between the hugeness of the Milky Way and the “bits” that compose our idea of self is well-illustrated. And, I like the gradual loss of self as it contemplates what is itself and beyond itself.

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Selected Senryu: Snowflakes Senryu

politicians
blah blah blah...
snowflakes

Haiku News, June 12, 2010

Note:

Editor's Comment: This is an incredible piece of work Chen-ou! This is actually one of my favorite poems submitted by you. The juxtaposition here is outstanding. The use of “blah, blah, blah” really illuminates the image of snowflakes. Lovely work my friend!

James Tipton's Comment: Another nice one. I particularly like the “blah blah blah” of the politicians set against the more real and more beautiful world of falling snow. It reminded me when I first read it of Walt Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Speak,” in which a person patiently listens to the verbose professor:

When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Selected Kyoka: Little Brother Kyoka

my little brother
stands at full attention
for the first time
these left wing poems
in the spotlight

Haiku News, December 20 2009

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Selected Haiku: Snowflakes Haiku

snowflakes
falling upon snowflakes
upon snowflakes...

Haiku News, October, 31, 2009

Notes:

1 In celebration of the upcoming 7th anniversary of being a published writer of Japanese short form poetry, I am pleased to announce a new publishing project, Selected Haiku by Chen-ou Liu.

2 Below is excerpted from the comments posted in the comment section:

Editor:

Repetition is also one of my favourite techniques in haiku. When used properly it has a wonderful effect (a kind of doubling up exponentially to create an endlessness, not unlike the Western concept of the “sublime”).

Chen-ou Liu:

Hi! Dick:

“Western concept of the ‘sublime’”

Kantian sublime? Kant identifies the sublime with a quantity, and that quantity is unlimited.

Dick Whyte:

Yeah – that is what I was getting at – the repetition heads toward infinity and creates a sense of the unlimited (or endlessness). It does this by suggesting that the repetition goes on forever (unlimited repetition). Hence, I can read your poem as:

snowflakes

falling upon snowflakes

upon snowflakes…

falling upon snowflakes

upon snowflakes…

falling upon snowflakes

upon snowflakes…

falling upon snowflakes

upon snowflakes…

falling upon snowflakes

upon snowflakes…

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

Migration Haiku/Tanka

Haiku:

eyes closed...
the migrant prays to God
in his adopted tongue

Tanka:

with eyes closed
rugged hands holding a Bible
against his chest
the migrant prays to God
in his adopted tongue

Haiku News , 1:41, Oct. 23, 2012