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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Selected Haiku: Getting Old Haiku

morning coffee
darkened with the thought
of getting old

Wild Plum, Spring/Summer 2017

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:57 AM

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Labels: aging, haiku, SH, wild plum

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Selected Haiku: Thoughts of Home Haiku

deeper and deeper
into my thoughts of home
winter solstice

Wild Plum, 2;2, Fall/Winter 2016

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:06 AM

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Labels: haiku, home, SH, wild plum, winter

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Selected Haiku: Surge of the Wind Haiku

surge of the wind ...
talk of war fading
into silence

Wild Plum, 2;1, Spring/Summer 2016

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 9:04 PM

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Labels: haiku, SH, silence, war, wild plum

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Selected Haiku: Dripping Faucet Haiku

the faucet dripping ...
my loneliness
comes inside her

Japanese Translation by 性愛俳句部, @seiaihaiku

きみの中したたる蛇口ひとりきり

Revision, Wild Plum, 1:2, 2015
Anthologized in Behind the Tree Line

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:41 AM

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Labels: haiku, loneliness, relationship, sex, SH, translation, wild plum

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Aging Haiku

morning coffee
darkened with the thought
of getting old

Wild Plum, Spring/Summer 2017

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 7:41 AM

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Labels: aging, haiku, wild plum

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Eyebrow Moon Haiku

eyebrow moon
the way she utters
those three words

Wild Plum, Spring/Summer 2017

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 5:49 PM

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Labels: haiku, moon, relationship, wild plum

Saturday, September 3, 2016

Old Lighthouse Haiku

old lighthouse...
I feel
something erect

Wild Plum, 2;2, Fall/Winter 2016

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:14 AM

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Labels: haiku, sex, wild plum

Friday, September 2, 2016

Winter Solstice Haiku

deeper and deeper
into my thoughts of home
winter solstice

Wild Plum, 2;2, Fall/Winter 2016

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 8:49 AM

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Labels: haiku, home, wild plum, winter

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Black Witch Moth Haiku

my shadow wanders
from street light to street light
a black witch moth

Wild Plum, 2;1, Spring & Summer 2016

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 5:40 PM

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Labels: haiku, shadow, wild plum

Talk of War Haiku

surge of the wind ...
talk of war fading
into silence

Wild Plum, 2;1, Spring & Summer 2016

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 7:42 AM

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Labels: haiku, silence, war, wild plum

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Dripping Faucet Haiku

the faucet dripping ...
my loneliness comes
inside her

Wild Plum, 1:2, 2015
Anthologized in Behind the Tree Line

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 7:43 AM

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Labels: anthology, haiku, loneliness, relationship, sex, wild plum

Monday, September 14, 2015

Starry Night Haiku

my words
caught in her eyes
starry night

Wild Plum, 1:2, 2015

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 7:58 AM

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Labels: haiku, relationship, star, wild plum

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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

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Selected Haiku: Getting Old Haiku

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Selected Haiku: Thoughts of Home Haiku

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Selected Haiku: Surge of the Wind Haiku

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Selected Haiku: Dripping Faucet Haiku

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Aging Haiku

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Eyebrow Moon Haiku

Saturday, September 3, 2016

Old Lighthouse Haiku

Friday, September 2, 2016

Winter Solstice Haiku

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Black Witch Moth Haiku

Talk of War Haiku

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Dripping Faucet Haiku

Monday, September 14, 2015

Starry Night Haiku

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Broken/Breaking English: Selected Short Poems

Following the Moon to the Maple Land

Ripples from a Splash

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