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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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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Special Feature: Selected Poems for Reflections on Remembrance Day

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war is peace: the war to end all wars, news rolling Remembrance Day the parade lengthens by armless vets (FYI: Originated as an idealistic s...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Flock of Cranes Haiku by Nikolay Grankin

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English Original letting go of my grandson’s hand a flock of cranes   Honorable Mention, 2021 Japan Fair Haiku Contest   Nikolay Grankin  Ch...
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Sunday, November 9, 2025

One Man's Maple Moon: Evening of Life Tanka by Fumi Saito

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English Original a husband paralyzed my old mother blind on both sides this evening of life I enter autumn White Letter Poems , 1998 Fumi Sa...
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Saturday, November 8, 2025

A Room of My Own: First Trillionaire Haiku

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This Brave New World , CXXVI first trillionaire ... my son counts on his fingers the zeros  FYI: Times of India, Nov. 7 2025 : Path to world...
Friday, November 7, 2025

Biting NOT Barking: Explosion and Echo Haiku by Natalia Kuznetsova

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English Original explosion of autumn colours ... echo of war   Under the Basho Journal , 2022 Natalia Kuznetsova Chinese Translation (Tradit...
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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Poetic Musings: Collapsed School Wall Haiku by Chen-ou Liu

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collapsed school wall a butterfly in shades of charcoal First Place, 2025 Porad Haiku Award Chen-ou Liu Commentary by the judge, Jacquie Pea...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Corrugated Shadow Haiku by André Surridge

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English Original heat shimmer the corrugated shadow of a roofer Honorable Mention, 2012 Haiku Pen Contest  André Surridge  Chinese Translati...
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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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