Day And Night, A Tanka Sequence Poem by Chen-ou Liu
Day And Night, A Tanka Sequence
for new immigrants
flying above
the light and murmur
of Formosa
the airplane carries
my immigrant dream
Toronto settles
into a nocturnal rhythm...
face to face
in the attic room
with my Chinese self
Note: In 1544, a Portuguese ship sighted the main island of Taiwan and named it 'Ilha Formosa, ' which means “Beautiful Island.”
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: immigration,identity
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