Chen-ou Liu Poems

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131.
Spring Morning Air Tanka

she says,
the spring morning air
is throbbing
with promise...
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132.
I Must Stay Drunk On Writing So Reality Cannot Destroy Me

Alone in the darkness of this May Day morning, I can hear the droning of my muse's air-raid sirens. Waiting for the next explosion of words drives me crazy like a moth flying into the summer fire.
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133.
Red Light District Tanka

in De Wallen
the summer sunset sky
through a brothel window...
one woman looks out
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134.
Longing Tanka For Basho

she cuts
a muskmelon in half…
I write
rewrite, and revise
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'Malala Day
is not my day' thundered
across the room...
a girl opens her new book
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136.
A Tanka About Chinese New Year

The 10th tanka in the sequence, Politics/Poetics of Re-Homing

alone
on Chinese New Year
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137.
Pacific Ocean Gendai Haiku

salmon wedge
the Pacific Ocean
between mother and me
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138.
Grassy Fields Haiku

grassy fields...
nothing stands between me
and the sun
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139.
Prairie Haiku

140.
A Tanka About An Endless Stream Of Thens

the 4th tanka in the sequence, Politics/Poetics of Re-Homing


'to me, time is
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