Selected Haiku: Whiteness Haiku

you, slanted eyes …
the whiteness
of a cold moon

Wednesday Haiku, 228, May 18 2016

Selected Haiku: Summer's End Haiku

summer's end
my footprints in the sand
a little deeper

Wednesday Haiku, 2015

Selected Haiku: Stretchmarks Haiku

the river
swollen with spring ...
her stretchmarks

Wednesday Haiku, 215, July 1 2015

Selected Haiku: Last Cherry Petals haiku

last cherry petals
drift to the ground
I miss myself

Wednesday Haiku, 158, 2014

Selected Haiku: Frost Flowers Haiku

frost flowers
blooming on the window ...
sonogram heartbeat

Wednesday Haiku, 157, April 23, 2014

Selected Haiku: Black Bird Haiku

for Wallace Stevens

a black bird
between snow-capped peaks
his words linger

Wednesday Haiku, 151, February, 19, 2014

Selected Haiku: First Hometown Visit Haiku

first hometown visit:
I embrace the oak tree
gone years ago

Wednesday Haiku, 143, Nov. 27, 2013

Selected Haiku: Ghost Haiku

July 4th
the ghost my friend keeps
under his pillow

Wednesday Haiku, 130, August 28, 2013

Selected Haiku: Raven's Caw Haiku

blinds flapping
out of the spring sky
a raven's caw

Wednesday Haiku, 123, July 10, 2013

Selected Haiku:: Tojinbo Cliffs Haiku

Tojinbo Cliffs
I leave
my shadow behind

Wednesday Haiku, April 3, 2013

Note: Below is excerpted from the Wikipedia entry, Tōjinbō: Tōjinbō is also a well-known place in Japan to commit suicide. According to statistics, as many as 25 people commit suicide by jumping off the 70-foot-high cliffs annually, a number which has risen and fallen with Japan's national economic hardships and unemployment rates.

Selected Haiku: Wet Dream Haiku

awake
from a wet dream
winter rain

Wednesday Haiku, 83, September. 26 2012

Selected Haiku: Spring Campfire Haiku

spring campfire
the smoke curls around
Father and me

Wednesday Haiku, 82, September 19 2012

Selected Haiku: Mother Tongue Haiku

Pacific shore...
a tidal wave speaking
my mother tongue

Wednesday Haiku, May 30, 2012

reprinted in Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, March 8 2017

Commentary by aditya: Chen-ou Liu's haiku moved me on a personal level, English not being my own mother language. But of course.. the diasporic element (Pacific shore/a tidal wave..) present in his haiku makes it even more engaging.

And this is a sweet sweet picture with yr mother.

Also the work reminds me of another gem by Issa:

home village --
mother's cloth-pounding
faintly heard

Selected Haiku: Winter Solstice Haiku

winter solstice ...
two monarchs flutter
out of my dream

Wednesday Haiku, 65, May 2012

Selected Haiku: Dewdrop Haiku

New Year
a dewdrop holding
the morning sun

Wednesday Haiku, January 2, 2012

Whiteness Haiku

you, slanted eyes ...
the whiteness
of a cold moon 

Wednesday Haiku, 228, May 18 2016

Footprints in the Sand Haiku

summer's end
my footprints in the sand
a little deeper

Wednesday Haiku, 226, February 10, 2016

Stretchmarks Haiku

the river
swollen with spring ...
her stretchmarks

Wednesday Haiku , 215, July 1 2015

Twilight Haiku

in twilight
cherry petals fall
without a sound

Wednesday Haiku, 207, April 8 2015

Wall Haiku

shadow on the wall...
as if writing keeps myself
away from myself

Wednesday Haiku, #196, December 25, 2014