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First English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and Tanka Blog

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Poetic Musings: (N)ever Again Haiku by Chen-ou Liu

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Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words , CCXX: "(n)ever again" never again rolling tanks (n)ever again bomber after bomber Neve...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

A Room of My Own: Paris Mail Haiku

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twilit shadows fall on my wrinkled Paris mail signed Yours forever Added: the dark side of a winter moon ...  between us, the hush Added: th...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Time to Quit Haiku by LeRoy Gorman

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English Original time to quit I hear the bell before the bell Modern Haiku , 33.2, Summer, 2002 LeRoy Gorman Chinese Translation (Traditiona...
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Sunday, November 30, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Old Age Home Haiku by John Richard Stephens

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English Original dry leaves skip along the dirt road -- old age home the Asahi Shimbun , September 19, 2025 John Richard Stephens Chinese Tr...
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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Butterfly Dream: River Mist Haiku by Martha Magenta

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English Original river mist a damselfly fades into the blue Haiku Dialogue , January 30, 2019 Martha Magenta  Chinese Translation (Tradition...
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Friday, November 28, 2025

One Man's Maple Moon: Two Pebbles Tanka by Brendon Kent

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English Original two pebbles and the river’s song this willow dancing the same way you always did (for Martha Magenta ) Love: The British Ha...
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Thursday, November 27, 2025

Special Feature: Selected Poems for Reflections on Thanksgiving in Trumperica

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Thanksgiving, as it tends to be celebrated, is the most honest American holiday: all appetite, no apology ...  Thanksgiving just asks us to ...
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' ...
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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 164 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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