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

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Showing posts with label Scarlet Dragonfly Journal. Show all posts

Monday, August 5, 2024

After Life and Death

hospice room
an empty flower vase
holds itself

scattering ashes ...
the monotonous fall
of winter waves

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Thursday, July 11, 2024

Sound of Gray Haiku

snow, wind and rain
across province after province
the sound of gray

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Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Loud-Mouthed Loneliness Tanka

this war of words
with loud-mouthed loneliness ...
at last I surrender,
submit my ears, my heart
to the dawn chorus

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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Shape of Dew Haiku

hospice garden
the shape of dew
the shape of tears

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Beginning of the End

in dim lamplight
my wife murmurs, "I'm scared
of not knowing you:
you never sleep talk in English
you only dream in Chinese"

these weather swings
from record warmth to cold front
to snowfall ....
the weight of our silence
on the journey to a new life

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Winter Quilts Haiku

empty nest ...
the sound of winter quilts
folding and unfolding

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Sunday, November 26, 2023

New Kid Haiku

lemonade stand
the look of this new kid
on the block

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Ghostly Silence Haiku

this ghostly silence ...
face to face with a gang
of Grim Reapers

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Thursday, September 28, 2023

Fairy Wings Tanka

I read poetry
to a huddle of school kids
on the library floor ...
our dream soars on fairy wings 
into this world without walls

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

In Taipei, I still long for Taipei

ten years past
and alone in the moonlight
I have changed
and my hometown has changed
but we haven't changed together

I try to change
this idea of my hometown
people pass me by
with their eyes speaking in a code
that is foreign to me

the vendor asks,
are you from mainland China?
the look in his eyes
speaks the language
of a border guard

this journey
back to my hometown
ends 
with another one
on the road of no return

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Friday, May 19, 2023

New Year's Snow Tanka

alone
holding a cup of tea
I look out the window
at new year's snow ...
this life on a hamster wheel

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Friday, April 21, 2023

Childhood River Tanka

winter sunset
over my childhood river
the past
rippling through the present
that I can't change

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Friday, April 7, 2023

Strips of Pink Haiku

strips of pink
at the horizon ...
day of release

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Saturday, March 25, 2023

Fated

under gray skies
the Darvaza gas crater
burning for years
this flame of passion
stifled by marriage

a sudden spark
of opposites attract
turns into a bonfire
burning down my marriage ...
dog and me together alone

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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Wave Upon Wave Tanka

wave upon wave
lapping blue
against my feet ...
maybe more to love
in another world?

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

Mountain Path and Younger Self Tanka

the mountain path
engulfed in twilight fog
this journey
back to my younger self
one I miss the most

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Monday, October 31, 2022

Double Masked Grim Reaper

new subvariants ...
a double masked Grim Reaper
demands candy

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Sunday, July 3, 2022

A Fork in the Road Haiku

a fork in the road 
the path less traveled taken 
by a butterfly

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Friday, June 10, 2022

Climate Tanka Haiku

climate 
talk 
after 
talk 
leaf 
on 
leaf

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