tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post3517225137511770806..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: One Man's Maple Moon: Heartfelt Vows Tanka by Beverley George Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-38142868405937522942013-12-16T03:28:26.424-05:002013-12-16T03:28:26.424-05:00hello Chen-ou
My pleasure. I admire greatly your...hello Chen-ou<br /><br />My pleasure. I admire greatly your creative efforts in this NeverEnding Story and thoroughly enjoy its ongoing contributions to haiku and tanka . . . thank you<br /><br />SimonAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08122338901425686897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-16841847584991605562013-12-15T09:24:19.747-05:002013-12-15T09:24:19.747-05:00Hi! Simon:
Thanks for sharing your wonderful thou...Hi! Simon:<br /><br />Thanks for sharing your wonderful thought.<br /><br />Chen-ouChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-56215545506936443932013-12-15T04:36:39.335-05:002013-12-15T04:36:39.335-05:00The subject this tanka speaks to is one close to m...The subject this tanka speaks to is one close to my heart - a celebration of unity - the recognition that humanity is One and the happiness of the realisation of this truth in the coming together of a couple . . .<br />I found Chen-ou's comments here on Kipling's lines happily illuminating. And yes, don't the poems look wonderful in Chinese.<br />Simon HansonAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08122338901425686897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-60746058076866160522013-12-13T00:23:05.611-05:002013-12-13T00:23:05.611-05:00Beverley's tanka and haiku were written for he...Beverley's tanka and haiku were written for her Chinese-Australian nephew, Simon and his soon-to-be-wife, Belinda.<br /><br />I wish them 百 年 好 合<br /><br />Chen-ou<br /><br />note: 百 (bai; hundred) 年 (nian; year) 好 (hao; harmonious) 合 (he; union) (a harmonious union lasting a hundred years)Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-75755180276020157642013-12-13T00:19:41.831-05:002013-12-13T00:19:41.831-05:00Beverley' heartfelt tanka is made up of well-c...Beverley' heartfelt tanka is made up of well-chosen phrases, heartfelt vows, bright elements of west and east, and their single home.<br /><br />The upper verse successfully sets the scene/theme while the lower verse skillfully portrays an embodied representation of oneness between the couple, who come from different cultural-ethnic backgrounds.<br /><br />And her tanka, especially the lower verse, could be read as a poetic response to Rudyard Kipling's most quoted and often-misunderstood opening line (s) of The Ballad of East and West:<br /><br />Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,<br />(Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;<br />But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,<br />When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!)<br /><br /><br /> Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com