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Friday, January 2, 2026

A Room of My Own: Muslim Mayor Tanka

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History Often Rhymes , III: "first Muslim mayor of New York City" for Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim mayor of New York City  and...
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Butterfly Dream: New Year Haiku by Gareth Nurden

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English Original new year misty morning breath of an old car Gareth Nurden Chinese Translation (Traditional) 新年清晨 一輛老舊汽車排放出 薄霧般的廢氣 Chinese T...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Special Feature: Selected Poems for End-of-Year Reflections

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My Dear Readers: Today marks the last day of 2025, a year lived dangerously—or precariously—for countless people around the world. written i...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Light Snow Haiku by Bill Kenney

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English Original light snow our footprints in the wind A Hundred Gourds , 1:1, December 2011 Bill Kenney   Chinese Translation (Traditional)...
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Monday, December 29, 2025

One Man's Maple Moon: Battledress Tanka by André Surridge

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English Original from the beach at Anzac Cove a stone the colour of your battledress. Eucalypt , 6, 2009 André Surridge Chinese Translation ...
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Sunday, December 28, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Shrinking Snowman Haiku by Peggy Heinrich

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English Original shrinking snowman the red wool scarf loosens its grip                              Honorable Mention, 2008 Porad Award Pegg...
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Saturday, December 27, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Christmas Morning Haiku by Ernest J. Berry

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English Original Christmas morning toys on his windowsill wrapped in sunrise World Haiku Review , 2:2, July 2002 Ernest J. Berry Chinese Tra...
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Friday, December 26, 2025

A Room of My Own: Christmas Rain Haiku

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Christmas rain ... a girl’s muffled cries follow wrong number Added: the faint smell of Christmas leftovers ... snow, ice, rain mixed Added:...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

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

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( Added : Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words , CCLXII: "a bridge of bones" written in response to Al Jazeera, December 25 :...
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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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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