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

Showing posts with label Shot Glass Journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shot Glass Journal. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Margin Haiku

sleepless again ...
alone at the margin
of this starry silence

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Monday, February 16, 2026

Trump News on Mute Tanka

Trump news on mute ...
I look out the window
at the moths
flying around the porch light
in this false spring

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Sunday, February 15, 2026

Weight of Parting Haiku

scattered ashes ...
the weight of parting with her
a second time

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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Blossom Rain Haiku

blossom rain ...
running after winged petals
three-year-old me

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Monday, February 10, 2025

Red-and-Gold Dream Tanka

maple leaves
falling on maple leaves
my three-year-old
piles up enough to hide
inside his red-and-gold dream

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Friday, August 30, 2024

The Outsider Tanka

light in the eyes
of this familiar stranger
a photo
of seventeen-year-old me
reading The Outsider

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Thursday, August 29, 2024

Dimpled Smile Tanka

the dimpled smile
on a young mother's face
in sunlight
the brush of a butterfly
against her baby's finger

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Palm Fronds Haiku

palm fronds
feathered against the sky
the scent of summer

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Saturday, February 24, 2024

Ghostly Thoughts Tanka

I close my eyes
and slip into childhood ...
these ghostly thoughts
jostling one another 
on the therapist’s couch

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Back-and-Forth Monologue Tanka

my girlfriend
peels back another layer
of the onion ...
this back-and-forth monologue
on our entangled past

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Old Dog's Stare Haiku

the quiver
of a crime-scene tape
an old dog's stare

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Saturday, October 21, 2023

Back-and-Forth Monologue Tanka

my girlfriend
peels back another layer
of the onion ...
this back-and-forth monologue
on our entangled past

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Thursday, October 19, 2023

Therapyist's Couch Tanka

I close my eyes
and slip into childhood ...
these ghostly thoughts
jostling one another
on the therapyist's couch

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Quiver Haiku

the quiver
of a crime-scene tape
an old dog's stare

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Sunday, July 16, 2023

Winding Road Haiku

on the winding road 
to our childhood home, the dog
we left behind

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Saturday, July 15, 2023

Bedsheet Wrinkles Haiku

winter moonlight
between bedsheet wrinkles
strands of gray hair

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Saturday, June 3, 2023

Winding Road Haiku

on the winding road
to our childhood home, the dog
we left behind

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Friday, June 2, 2023

Winter Moonlight Haiku

winter moonlight
between bedsheet wrinkles
strands of gray hair

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Thursday, September 1, 2022

Cocoon and Inner Child Tanka

in the cocoon
of this quarantine life
deep ... and deeper
into a conversation
with my inner child

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Quicksand Tanka

my friend's grief
for his lost homeland
drags me down like quicksand ...
this dark cave
of my immigrant life

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