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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

A Room of My Own: Breadline Haiku

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the breadline lengthens new snow on bare branches on shoulders, too  Added:  a row of tents snow slipping off bare branches clings to faces ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Old Mill House Haiku by Agnieszka Filipek

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English Original old mill house the water wheel turning with cherry blossoms Cold Moon Journal , September 7, 2025 Agnieszka Filipek Chinese...
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Monday, November 24, 2025

One Man's Maple Moon: Family Album Tanka by Kala Ramesh

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English Original flipping through      the family album  grandma’s smile trying to shield the hurt her eyes give away Cattails , Spring 2024...
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Sunday, November 23, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Empty Mailbox Haiku by Daniela Misso

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English Original empty mailbox  the weight of raindrops  on a rose  Haiku Pea Podcast , September 20 2022 Daniela Misso Chinese Translation ...
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Saturday, November 22, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Autumn Gale Haiku by Djurdja Vukelić Rožić

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English Original autumn gale whatever direction I go World Haiku Series ,  2019 Djurdja Vukelić Rožić  Chinese Translation (Traditional) 秋風 ...
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Friday, November 21, 2025

Special Feature: Selected Poems for Reflections on COP30

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My Dear Readers: Today marks the last day of the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

A Room of My Own: Trump-Raged World Tanka

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Trump Empire, Inc , LXII: alone, putting the Trump-raged world on mute I take a sip of morning black coffee and listen to the snowfall FYI: ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Poetic Musings: Plainclothes Cop Tanka by Lorraine Pester

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boy's deck shoes a paisley tie, pink and torn compression socks thin legs wrapped in loose capris a plainclothes cop in the ladies' ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Burst of Sunshine Haiku by Joanna Ashwell

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English Original chaffinch call a brief burst of sunshine Autumn Moon Haiku Journal , 3:2, Spring/Summer 2020 Joanna Ashwell Chinese Transla...
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Monday, November 17, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Autumn Clouds Haiku by Rachel Sutcliffe

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English Original wild mushrooms all the shades of autumn clouds tinywords , October 27 2014 Rachel Sutcliffe Chinese Translation (Traditiona...
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Sunday, November 16, 2025

One Man's Maple Moon: Vow of Love Tanka by Fumiko Nakajo

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English Original close to death for me an everlasting vow of love in a requiem song has begun to ring Breasts of Snow , 2004 Fumiko Nakajo  ...
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Saturday, November 15, 2025

Special Feature: Selected Poems on Jewish Terrorism in the West Bank

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" Israel's oldest daily ,  Haaretz," which was was  sanctioned by the Israeli government  on Nov. 24, 2024 Nov. 13 Podcast : H...
Friday, November 14, 2025

A Room of My Own: Epstein Email Gembun

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In a 2011 email to Ghislaine Maxwell, “… that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.” a pink-haired girl seen through a telescope of age-spotted h...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

To the Lighthouse: Ju Roku, a Haiku/Tanka Inspired Form

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Ju Roku is an invented form that Steve Wilkinson, editor of The Bamboo Hut , developed a few years ago. " It is a succinct form limited...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Bison Haiku by Jack Galmitz

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English Original Inside of me Bison are stampeding Across caves For a Sparrow: Haiku , 2007 Jack Galmitz    Chinese Translation (Traditional...
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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 163 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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