Chen-ou Liu: New Year

 Photo by N A Sirkhan

New Year
a dewdrop holding
the morning sun

Chen-ou Liu

This wonderful New Year's greeting arrived in my inbox yesterday from the poet Chen-ou Liu, who lives in Canada.  I asked his gracious permission to share it blog readers here and he was kind of enough to grant it.






if someone asks
answer: it's a dewdrop
OK?

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

 Photo by Rick Lamesa

 

 

 

 

 

 

best,

Don

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NeverEnding Story: Call for Submissions

 

Zhuangzi

With the beginning of the year, Chen-ou Liu, the fine Chinese-Canadian poet, started a new web-based project, NeverEnding Story, the first English-Chinese haiku and tanka blog. Chen-ou has been posting regularly from the first of the year, sometimes twice a day. I would urge you to start with the first post, in the haibun form, so you get a feel for what Chen-ou is about.

In addition, to get a general idea about the various projects coming out of his new blog, you can't do any better than checking out this About page from the blog. 

One aspect of the project is the posting of haiku and tanka which Chen-ou translates into Chinese. You will find a call for haiku submissions here and a call for tanka submissions here. There is also an associated anthology project comprising the best of the work published on the blog. 

But really you need to be experiencing the blog for yourself. It is itself a unique, creative act by an important poet/critic of Eastern forms in English. I am honored, indeed, to have a poem featured there.  


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 Photo by Sabrina

garden butterfly--
the child crawls, it flies
crawls, it flies...

 Issa

 translated by David G. Lanoue 

best,
Don

   

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Patrick Sweeney & Chen-ou Liu: Wednesday Haiku, #228

Chess between adepts
persimmons on
a leafless tree

Patrick Sweeney

Photo by Brendan Adkins

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

Chen-ou Liu

Photo by Joe Stump

in cherry blossom shade
there are even those
who hate this world

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don
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Bart Solarcyzk & Chen-ou Liu: Wednesday Haiku, #226

Photo by Walter A. Aue

going  back
    to say goodbye
                 tomorrow

     Bart Solarcyzk 

 
 

Photo by Vern

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

     Chen-ou Liu

 Photo by davebloggs007

tomorrow morning
a humdrum river beach again?
summer moon

Issa
trans. by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

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Chen-ou Liu & Daryl Nielsen: Wednesday Haiku, #215

Photo by April Schultz

 
the river
swollen with spring ...
her stretchmarks

Chen-ou Liu

Photo by Willrad von Doomenstein

honeysuckle
through an open window
mother’s last breath

Daryl Nielsen

high noon--
the reed thrush sings
to a silent river

Issa
trans. by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

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Chen-ou Liu & Lisa Espenmiller: Wednesday Haiku

Kaji-jo by Chooro Kuniyoshi 

in twilight
cherry petals fall
without a sound

Chen-ou Liu

Photograph by Robert Ashworth

early morning
redwoods shrouded
in the sound of fog

Lisa Espenmiller

Ash man by @doug88888

the cherry tree
that made blossom clouds
becomes charcoal 

Issa
trans. by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

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Walter Mehring & Chen-ou Liu: Wednesday Haiku, #196

Photo by Anya Quinn

old garden gloves
poised for action
half dirt already

Walter Mehring

Photo by Pavel P

 

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

Chen-ou Liu

Photo by Photosteve

looking younger than me
the scarecrow casts
his shadow                   

                    Issa
                    translated by David G. Lanoue

 
best,
Don

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Chen-ou Liu & Mary Frederick Ahern: Wednesday Haiku, #190

Artwork by Nukina Sūō

what's left undrawn ...
the sound of the pine breeze
in his ink painting

Chen-ou Liu

Artwork (detail) by Olive E. Whitney

bee abandoned
the blossoms fall -
letting go

Mary Frederick Ahern

Photo by Michael Goodin

thicket bees
in the next life don't
be like me

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

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Chen-ou Liu & Asni Amin: Wednesday Haiku, #158

Woodblock by Yoshitoshi

last cherry petals
drift to the ground
I miss myself

Chen-ou Liu

Woodblock by Torii Kotondo

the silence
of snowflakes falling …
falling

Asni Amin

Art by Ohara Kuson

just when my house
has gotten used to deep snow...
spring blossoms

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

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Chen-ou Liu & H. Edgar Hix: Wednesday Haiku, #157

Photo by Jessamyn

sonogram heartbeat …
frost flowers
blooming on the window

Chen-ou Liu

Photo by Monteregina

Snowdrift:
Blank canvas
already painted.

H. Edgar Hix

 Art by Hokkei

the pheasant's cry sounds
half-hearted...
spring begins

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

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Chen-ou Liu & Tony DeCarolis: Wednesday Haiku, #151

a black bird
between snow-capped peaks
his words linger
                                    - (for Wallace Stevens) 
                Chen-ou Liu

Photo by xpistwv

Bold hummingbirds buzz
above the ever wary fawn.
If only she flew.   

Tony DeCarolis

Artwork by Ivan Bilibin

 

don't teach your tricks
to the fawn!
cawing crows

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don

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Chen-ou Liu & Mary Ahearn: Wednesday Haiku, #143

Photo by Nicholas T

 

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

Chen-ou Liu

Photo by Simon Kozhin

 
                    butterfly
               folds its wings
     the prayer the children learn

Mary Ahearn

Woodcut by Shibata Zeshin

the home village
I abandoned...
cherry trees in bloom

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don

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Chen-ou Liu & Tony Burfield: Wednesday Haiku, #130

Photo by Joaquin Villaverde

July 4th
the ghost my friend keeps
under his pillow

Chen-ou Liu

Photo by Steve Jurvetson

 


Insect Poetry Competition–
each cricket
with the same line

Tony Burfield

Photo by wd9hot

an arm for a pillow--
the year ends
or doesn't end

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

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Don

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Chen-ou Liu & Rehn Kovacic: Wednesday Haiku, #123

Photo by Mr. Wood

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

Chen-ou Liu

 Photo by Lady Dragonfly CC

 
 


Conversation
  on a hot summer evening—
         cicada.

Rehn Kovacic

Photo by Jason A. Samfield

in a dewdrop world
singing of dewdrops...
summer cicada

Issa 

translated by David G. Lanoue

   

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Constance Brewer & Chen-ou Liu: Wednesday Haiku, #116

Photo by Visualpanic

full tea mug
warms eight fingers
gunpowder blend

Constance Brewer

Photo by Yersina


   

dust to dust...   

a butterfly flitting
over her grave

Chen-ou Liu

Art by Yashima Gakutei

a nightingale singing
included in the price...
five-penny tea

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don   

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Chen-ou Liu & Andrea Grillo: Wednesday Haiku

Artwork by Takeji Asano

Tojinbo Cliffs
I leave
my shadow behind

Chen-ou Liu

 

ponytail
on her lee side
a crescent moon

Andrea Grillo

Photo by jijis

moonlight! shadow!
even en route to Yoshiwara
winter's withering

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don   

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Chen-ou Liu & dan smith: Wednesday Haiku Week #83

 Photograph by Michael

awake
from a wet dream
... winter rain

Chen-ou Liu

Photograph by Jppi

Sudoku,
Rubik's Cube,
You

dan smith

O insects
don't you complain too!
this autumn

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don 

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Ida Freilinger and Chen-ou Liu: Wednesday Haiku #82

Photograph by John Harrison

Cedar waxwing
lingers near the burning bush--
fruit-setting time

Ida Freilinger

Photograph by Russell Lee

spring campfire
the smoke curls around
Father and me

Chen-ou Liu

Photograph by Wallyir

father's steady glare
another thing
in the mist 

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don 

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