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Thursday, December 25, 2025

Special Feature: Selected Poems for Reflections on "One Christmas, Worlds Apart"

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This Brave New World , CXXXII written in response to Palestinian Pastor Munther Isaac's Christmas sermon , 2023: “Christ in the Rubble” ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Christmas Eve Haiku by Larry Kimmel

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English Original Christmas eve  across the snow-hushed town St. Mary's chimes ... Alone Tonight , 1998 Larry Kimmel Chinese Translation ...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Funeral Haiku by Ling Ge

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English Original after the funeral ... between us the sound of snowfall Acorn , 52, Fall 2024 Ling Ge Chinese Translation (Traditional) 葬禮之後...
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Monday, December 22, 2025

One Man's Maple Moon: Empty Sky and Snow Tanka by Izumi Shikibu

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English Original Why did you vanish into empty sky? Even the fragile snow, when it falls, falls in this world. The Ink Dark Moon , 1990 Izum...
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Sunday, December 21, 2025

Poetic Musings: Two Pebbles Tanka by Brendon Kent

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two pebbles and the river’s song this willow dancing the same way you always did (for Martha Magenta) Love: The British Haiku Society Member...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

A Room of My Own: Mayor's Words Tanka

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it's difficult to fight this or solve that the mayor's words adrift -- shouts, over and over it's easy to resign FYI: This is a ...
Friday, December 19, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Bread and Poems Haiku by vincent tripi

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English Original winter evening -- grandma's recipe for bread among my poems Global Haiku , 2000 vincent tripi  Chinese Translation (Tra...
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Thursday, December 18, 2025

Reading More and Writing Better: Disembodied Mouth Tanka by Chen-ou Liu

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History Often Rhymes , II: "disembodied Mouth" written in response to the Convicted Felon's " state-of-the-nation address...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Mother's Death Haiku by Charlotte Digregorio

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English Original after Mother's death ... standing in autumn wind among the pines Frogpond , 46:2, Spring/Summer 2023 Charlotte Digregor...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Year of Famine Haiku by Fay Aoyagi

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English Original mountain fog  the year of famine on a tombstone Mann Library’s Daily Haiku , Mar 9, 2008 Fay Aoyagi Chinese Translation (Tr...
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Monday, December 15, 2025

Biting NOT Barking: Snowflakes and War Tanka by Kirsty Karkow

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English Original shot with snowflakes my image in the window all a-tremble I hug myself, the pain of never-ending war   Yellow Moon , 16, Su...
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Sunday, December 14, 2025

A room of My Own: Immigration Gembun

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Re-Homing in the Maple Land , XLII A new life in this promised land of milk and honey, where my veil of forgetfulness drapes like a shroud. ...
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Saturday, December 13, 2025

Reading More and Writing Better: Don Tanka by Chen-ou Liu

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History Often Rhymes , I: "the Donroe Doctrine" the Don posed  behind the Resolute Desk with fingers cocked for the cameras' r...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Changing Light Haiku by Michele Root-Bernstein

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English Original in changing light lilies changing light Wind Rose , 2021 Michele Root-Bernstein  Chinese Translation (Traditional) 在變化的光線中百...
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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Stubble Haiku by Winona Baker

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English Original in the stubble a ball of blue wool unwinds in the wind An Invisible Accordion , 1995 Winona Baker  Chinese Translation (Tra...
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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 165 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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