Senryu by Chen-ou Liu, Canada (1)
2012/06/30
I received an e-mail from Chen-ou Liu,Canada.
Dear Mr. Hidenori Hiruta
I came across your website while looking for the haiku written in different languages. I was amazed by your efforts in spreading a love for Japanese short form poetry. I wish you success in all your endeavors.
And I would like to submit the following poems for your consideration for publication on the Akita International HST Network. I shall be pleased if you translate some that appeal you much.
Warm Regards
Chen-ou Liu
First of all, let me take up a brief bio of Chen-ou Liu:
Chen-ou Liu was born in Taiwan and emigrated to Canada in 2002. He lives in Ajax, a suburb of Toronto, where he has been struggling with a life in transition and translation.
Chen-ou is a contributing writer for Rust+Moth and Haijinx. His poetry has been published and anthologized worldwide. His tanka have been honored with awards, including the Saigyo Awards for Tanka 2009 (honorable mention) and the 2009 San Francisco International Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Rengay Competition (tanka third place).
For more information about Chen-ou’s writing career, please read An Interview with Chen-ou Liu by Robert D. Wilson
(accessed at http://simplyhaiku.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/interview-with-chen/).
And read more of his poetry at his website,
Poetry in the Moment (http://chenouliu.blogspot.com/).
All the best,
Chen-ou Liu
Next I present some of his senryu with my Japanese translation.
1st set of his Senryu: (sent along with haiku and tanka on Wednesday, September 8, 2010
the bat
flitting here and there…
Chen-ou or Eric
コウモリ
あちこちすいすい飛んでいる．．．
チェン・オウまたはエリック
Easter morning:
sunlight reflected
from the wine glass
復活祭の朝
日光が反射している
ワイングラスから
deep tissue massage —
what happens between
the poet and words?
ディープティッシュマッサージ ―
どんなことが起こるの
詩人と言葉に
Good Friday
deep inside his mouth
no more “why?”
良い金曜日
彼の口の内側深くに
もう「なぜ？」はない
after Fitzcarraldo…
I go around for hours wearing
the actor’s face
「フィッツカラルド」を観た後．．．
何時間も歩き回る
俳優の表情を浮かべながら
Fine Art Gallery
full of still life paintings
her bouncing breasts
すばらしい画廊
今だに生き生きとした絵画
彼女の大きな乳房
immortal through cloning…
he wonders what to do
on a Sunday
クローンにより不死身．．．
彼は何をすべきかと思う
ある日曜日
Lastly, let me add three tanka by Chen-ou Liu.
the threads
of a thousand poems
dangle on
the tip of a crescent moon
over my attic
一千の詩の糸下がる三日月の先見えるなり屋根裏の上
my days
aren’t graphed in ideograms
but lined up
like the English alphabet –
Chinese in the promised land
我が日々は表意文字では示されぬ英文字のごと中国語なら
I close
the valves of my heart
to the world of red dust
solitude and I
are now of the same race
塵の世へ心臓弁を我閉じる孤独と我は今同種なり
The next posting ‘For New Year 2012 (14) : Photo Haiku byIoana Dinescu,Romania ’ appears on July 7.
― Hidenori Hiruta
On June 28, Patricia Lidia, a haikuist friend of mine in Romania, sent me haiku and haiga by her colleagues as well as by herself.
folding a map –
the oceans and a cherry tree
no borders
Patricia Lidia
地図を折りたたむ―
大洋と桜には
境界がない
Fragila Genovel- Florentin contributed haiga with haiku.
Sunrise ―
the morning prayer
is for Japan
日の出―
朝の祈り
日本のために
After tsunami –
on the wreck in the village
budding cherry
Petru-Ioan Gârda
津波の後 ―
村の瓦礫に
桜のつぼみ
A huge Tsunami –
maybe God wants
to make surf
Petru-Ioan Gârda
大津波 ―
ひょっとすると神の望み
波を作ること
Terrible earthquake –
very big tsunami
but not as high as Fuji
Petru-Ioan Gârda
恐ろしい地震 ―
とても大きな津波
だけど富士山ほどは高くない
roar from the depth –
only the mount Fuji
lasting refuge
Ion Rasinaru,
深淵からのとどろき―
富士山だけ
永続の避難
the fury of the sea
breaking destinies –
still Fuji
Ion Rasinaru,
海の激怒
運命をばらばらにこわす―
でも富士山は
Broken hourglass –
from Alps and Fuji pigeons
gather sand
Ion Rasinaru,
こわれた砂時計―
アルプスから富士山に飛ぶハト
砂を集める
house in ruins –
cherry blossoms for
homeless children
Ion Rasinaru,
破壊された家―
桜の花が咲く
家のない子供たちのために
scattered clouds –
blossom cherry floating
on the horn moon
Ion Rasinaru
散って行く雲―
桜の花が漂っている
三日月の端に
Claire Gardien, a haikuist friend of mine in France, contributed her haiku to me.
brave soldiers
be brave again
to past values
勇敢な侍たち
再び勇敢であれ
昔の価値を携えて
still real
to the tsunami people
their past and future dreams
いまだに実在している
津波を受けた人たちに
過去と未来の夢
11 march jishin –
deeply in their hearts
the spring bloom
3．１１地震―
心の中に深く刻まれる
春の花
harukaze eleven
Miharu’s giant cherry
…blossomed ikioi
春風11号
三春の巨大な滝桜
．．．勢いを咲かした
These haiku by Claire Gardien reminded me of Dr. Hideyo Noguchi’s words and my haiku posted in the last article.
耐へるべし彼の人の言ふ真夏かな
Be patient!
he says to himself —
midsummer
This haiku is inspired by the following photo I took at Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Hall (野口英世記念館) in Inawashiro（猪苗代町）, Fukushima prefecture （福島県）.
John Carley, a haikuist friend of mine in UK, who is columnist at haijinx, kindly contributed his haiku as a comment.
Please check it out
at http://www.haijinx.org/notes-on-renku/about-john-carley/
just endured it
he mutters to himself,
oh but this high summer!
ただ耐へただけ
彼の人はつぶやく、
ああ、しかし何て強烈な今夏なのか！
Lastly, let me post a photo of Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Hall and my haiku.
猪苗代アザレアの咲く英世の忌
at Inawashiro
azalea blooms in honor
Hideyo’s anniversary
The next posting ‘3.11 Haiku from the Romanian Haiku Society (1)’ appears on August 6.
― Hidenori Hiruta
Haiku by Tad Wojnicki in Taiwan (Part 2)
2010/12/18
On Aril 25, 2010, I received a comment from Tad Wojnicki in Taiwan.
Dear Hiruta-San:
I’m a Californian living/haikuing in Taiwan. I’ve just spotted your site /thx to haijinx/. Impressive! Loads and loads of love here. Thanks from all.
I’d like to participate in yr International Spring Festival. Plz, send some info my way.
Thx,
Tad
Hsinchu, Taiwan
I would like to introduce him to you through Tad Wojnicki bio.
Teddy Wojnicki holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He has studied poetry and prose under Frances Mayes, Molly Giles and Leo Litvak at SFSU, Ron Hansen at University of California-Santa Cruz, Rick DeMarinis at University of Texas at El Paso, and David Gitin at Monterey Peninsula College. His work has appeared in Simply Haiku, Contemporary Haibun, Haibun Today, bottle rockets, Frogpond, Poetry Midwest, ZYZZYVA, Tattoo Highway, and Rainbow Curve, among others; and anthologies like: AutoBioDiversity: True Stories from ZYZZYVA, ed. by Howard Junker; In the Arms of Words: Poems for Tsunami Relief, ed. by Amy Ouzoonian; and Taboo Haiku,ed. by Richard Krawiec. Teddy is the author of a factual novel, Lie Under the Fig Trees / Lying With Love, and an experimental haibun novel, Slopes of Lust (looking for a publisher). Overseas on sabbatical, he currently teaches his Write Like a Lover! workshop in Taiwan. Contact:
wojnicki@yahoo.com/
On May 1, 2010, he kindly contributed his haiku and photos to our Haiku Festival.
Shooting the Breeze at a Taiwan Café, Part 1.
On November 22, 2010, he kindly contributed his haiku and photos to our network again.
Dear Hiruta-San:
I enjoy your Akita website and feel blessed to be counted among your poets.
Every issue of your newsletter is a delightful treat and I am always looking
forward to the variety you propagate.
As you may recall, last May you ran my 11-piece haiku sequence titled,
“Shooting the Breeze at a Taiwan Cafe.” Would you consider publishing a sequel?
Here is a complementing portion of my “cafe haiku,” for your consideration!
Best regards,
Tad Wojnicki
Thanks to his contribution, I post his haiku with my Japanese interpretations.
Shooting the Breeze at a Taiwan Cafe, Part 2
crazy busy 忙殺
double shot splotches ダブルのお酒一杯がしみをつける
pave the burnout 燃え尽き症候群を覆いなさい
by my table テーブルのそば
a man praying to god 男が一人神に祈っている
across the street 道を横断して
whitecap view 白帽の眺め
salt glazes 塩をかける
the cupcakes カップケーキに
feeding time ごはん時
the baby sucks 赤ちゃんがしゃぶる
a straw ストローを
homeless Buddha 家のない仏陀
outside the Starbucks スタバーの外で
laughing 笑っている
fast food ファーストフード
grab some coffee コーヒーをすばやく飲み
chew the fat 油脂をかんで食べる
curbside barbeque 道端のバーベキュー
the drizzle drowns 霧雨が水浸しにする
the sizzle ジュージュー焼く音を
she wipes her face 彼女が顔をふく
stinky tofu くさい豆腐
ready to eat 食べ頃
grill gab 焼き網でのおしゃべり
the clouds roll downhill 雲が漂い下っていく
to meet the smoke 煙に会いに
too hot 暑すぎる
a truckload of sunshine 多量の日光が
backs into the shade 日陰に後退する
bamboo bar 竹の台
she shares her 彼女が分かち合う
pillow book 彼女の日記を
milk heavy — 樹液がもたれる ―
she kicks the coconut 彼女がココナツを蹴る
into the kitchen door 台所のドアへ
laptop by the door ドアのそばのノートパソコン
scents carry かおりが伝える
the humming ハミングを
cafe loveseat コーヒー店の２人掛けのソファー
a patron necking パトロンがキスしている
in her nap 彼女のうたたね中に
haiku writer 俳句作家
and cardboard collector そして段ボールの回収業者
making a pile 積み上げている
two spoons 二つのスプーン
between us — 私たち二人の間に ―
spooning スプーンですくい合う
black beans 黒い豆
starlight 星の光
Starbucks スターバックス
bar twilight バーの微光
pink azalea blossoms ピンクのアザリアの花が
turn burgundy 暗赤色に
the food stall 食べ物の露天
past midnight — 真夜中過ぎ ―
the chopblock set 切り身の塊の一組
no worldly care 世俗的な世話は無し
monks meditate 僧は黙想する
in mosquito moonshine 月光の中で蚊と共に
monk’s fat smile — 僧の太った微笑 ―
a pig’s half out of sight 豚の半分は見えない
behind a Fedex van フェデックスのバンの背後に
girls kick 少女たちが蹴る
a birthday balloon 誕生日のゴム風船を
in grass skirts 草地で
tonight 今夜
between bamboo blinds 竹のブラインドの間に
a Taiwanese moon 台湾の月が
Dear Hiruta-San,
Thank you, again!
Best,
Tad
Tad I.Wojnicki
Holiday Centre
11F, No.489, Tian-fu Rd.
Hsinchu City 30058
Taiwan
+886-0916-483-349
wojnicki@yahoo.com/
The Author:
http://www.amazon.com/Lie-Under-Fig-Trees-Novel/dp/1881334333
The Mentor:
www.writelikealover.com/
I sincerely hope that you will enjoy his haiku world again.
The next posting ‘Tanka by Minoru Kono’ appears on December 25.
― Hidenori Hiruta
Tanka by Chen-ou Liu in Canada (1)
2010/10/30
On September I received an e-mail from Chen-ou Liu.
And I would like to submit the following poems for your consideration for publication on the Akita International HST Network. I shall be pleased if you translate some that appeal you much.
Warm Regards
Chen-ou Liu
Chen-ou Liu was born in Taiwan and emigrated to Canada in 2002. He lives in Ajax, a suburb of Toronto, where he has been struggling with a life in transition and translation.
(accessed at http://simplyhaiku.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/interview-with-chen/).
And read more of his poetry at his website,
Poetry in the Moment (http://chenouliu.blogspot.com/).
All the best,
Chen-ou Li
Next I present some of his tanka with my Japanese translations.
Tanka:
stand along the road
in a row
seeing me off
to another world
裸の木列なし道に沿い立って我の他界を見送るごとし
of a thousand poems
dangle on
the tip of a crescent moon
over my attic
一千の詩の糸下がる三日月の先見えるなり屋根裏の上
between
that first gulp of air
and last breath —
a transitional flow
of yin and yang
初息から最後の呼吸一生は陰と陽とが替わりて流る
a blue bird
darts into blossoms and out
unsettled
I wander and yearn
my hometown an ocean away
青い鳥花へ飛びこみ落ち着かず我さすらいて故郷慕う
standing alone
by the main entrance
of the airport
I ponder the verb wait
transitive or intransitive
空港の入り口に立ち沈思する動詞の待つは他または自かと
my world
is coiled on rolls of film
and projected nightly
on the screen of my mind —
when is the reel world not real?
我が世界心のフィルム写し撮り夜ごとに映り実在すなり
Baker’s Bliss
sets out its morning bread
on the racks
I am drunk
on the spring breeze
朝パンを棚に並べるパン屋さん我酔いどれて春風を受く
yesterday
will be the same
for tomorrow never changes —
the kite of my days
cut from the string of Life
昨日また明日も変わらず同じかな我が世の凧は糸切られけり
if I put
a gun in my mouth
and splatter
my brain on cherry blossoms…
a timeless jisei?
口に銃桜の上の頭散る永遠の自制や起こすまじなり
my days
aren’t graphed in ideograms
but lined up
like the English alphabet —
Chinese in the promised land
我が日々は表意文字では示されぬ英文字のごと中国語なら
gazing
in the mirror
a stranger
stares back at me
a man with no eyes
鏡見る見知らぬ人が見返して我を見つめる目のない男
living alone
in a world of one color
loneliness
devours each hour
then neglects the rest
一色の世界にひとり住んでいる孤独時飲み他を無視すなり
I close
the valves of my heart
to the world of red dust
solitude and I
are now of the same race
塵の世に心臓弁を我閉じる孤独と我は今同種なり
The next posting ‘Haiku by Kaa. Na. Kalyanasundaram in India (1) ’ appears on November 6.
― Hidenori Hiruta
Haiku by Chen-ou Liu in Canada (1)
2010/09/25
On September 9, I received an e-mail from Chen-ou Liu.
Dear Mr. Hidenori Hiruta
I came across your website while looking for the haiku written in different languages. I was amazed by your efforts in spreading a love for Japanese short form poetry. I wish you success in all your endeavors.
And I would like to submit the following poems for your consideration for publication on the Akita International HST Network. I shall be pleased if you translate some that appeal you much.
Warm Regards
Chen-ou Liu
First of all, I would like to refer to a brief bio of Chen-ou Liu:
Chen-ou Liu was born in Taiwan and emigrated to Canada in 2002. He lives in Ajax, a suburb of Toronto, where he has been struggling with a life in transition and translation.
Chen-ou is a contributing writer for Rust+Moth and Haijinx. His poetry has been published and anthologized worldwide. His tanka have been honored with awards, including the Saigyo Awards for Tanka 2009 (honorable mention) and the 2009 San Francisco International Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Rengay Competition (tanka third place).
For more information about Chen-ou’s writing career, please read An Interview with Chen-ou Liu by Robert D. Wilson
(accessed at http://simplyhaiku.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/interview-with-chen/).
And read more of his poetry at his website,
Poetry in the Moment (http://chenouliu.blogspot.com/).
All the best,
Chen-ou Liu
Next I present some of his haiku with my Japanese translations.
Haiku:
blue moon…
the shadow walks
with me
青い月私と共に影歩く
I hear snowflake murmur
to snowflake
黒痣の目で聞く雪片のつぶやきを
where the boy lives
kites still fly
屋根裏に住む男の子凧揚げる
around the foreclosed house
a dog wanders
冬の月差し押さえの家犬歩く
the eagle
flaps its caged wings
summer scent
囚われの鷲羽ばたくや夏の香
whirling snowflakes…
in a butterfly’s dream
one hundred years
雪の渦蝶の夢には百年も
the purple middle
of an iris
新月やアイリスの紫の芯
He Said, She Said
on the stereo
上弦の月男女が話すステレオで
spring stars blinking
city lights stay on…
Earth Hour
春星明滅町の光も地の時間
Valentine’s Day
opening up for everyone
a bit of me
バレンタインデー皆のために私にも少し
from the Pacific
my feet itchy
太平洋から東風足がかゆい
M, poet
seeking partner
winter moon
月の連れ詩人の求む冬の月
keep your concentration
fluorescent lights hum
主の注意
集中を保てハミングする蛍光
remnants of that dream
lingers
秋の夜明け夢の残りが長らえり
clear spring sky…
I am seeing into
yesterday
春の空昨日を見ている我が身かな
gazing at
a bright rectangle of sky…
poetry class
長方形の空見つめたり詩のクラス
of the world the girl lives in…
hospital window
少女の住む世界病院の窓から
night deepens…
nothing left between
the blue moon and me
夜が更けて青い月と我の間に何もなし
autumn gusts
Jesus and Buddha sit
beside me
秋の突風イエスと仏陀が我のそば
I sincerely hope that you will be absorbed in haiku world of Chen–ou Liu.
The next posting ‘Haiku by Wahyu W. Basjir in Indonesia (1) ’ appears on October 2.
― Hidenori Hiruta
On Aril 25,2010, I received a comment from Teddy Wojnicki in Taiwan.
Dear Hiruta-San:
I’m a Californian living/haikuing in Taiwan. I’ve just spotted your site /thx to haijinx/. Impressive! Loads and loads of love here. Thanks from all.
I’d like to participate in yr International Spring Festival. Plz, send some info my way.
Thx,
Tad
Hsinchu, Taiwan
I would like to introduce him to you through TEDDY WOJNICKI BIO
Teddy Wojnicki holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He has studied poetry and prose under Frances Mayes, Molly Giles and Leo Litvak at SFSU, Ron Hansen at University of California-Santa Cruz, Rick DeMarinis at University of Texas at El Paso, and David Gitin at Monterey Peninsula College. His work has appeared in Simply Haiku, Contemporary Haibun, Haibun Today, bottle rockets, Frogpond, Poetry Midwest, ZYZZYVA, Tattoo Highway, and Rainbow Curve, among others; and anthologies like: AutoBioDiversity: True Stories from ZYZZYVA, ed. by Howard Junker; In the Arms of Words: Poems for Tsunami Relief, ed. by Amy Ouzoonian; and Taboo Haiku,ed. by Richard Krawiec. Teddy is the author of a factual novel, Lie Under the Fig Trees / Lying With Love, and an experimental haibun novel, Slopes of Lust (looking for a publisher). Overseas on sabbatical, he currently teaches his Write Like a Lover! workshop in Taiwan. Contact:
wojnicki@yahoo.com/
Teddy Wojnicki
Holiday Centre
11F, No.489, Tian-fu Rd.
Hsinchu City 30058
Taiwan
+886-0916-483-349
wojnicki@yahoo.com/
On May 1, 2010, he kindly contributed his haiku and photos to our Haiku Festival.
I present his haiku to you with my Japanese interpretations.
Shooting the Breeze at a Taiwan Cafe:
A Haiku Sequence
corner café —
enjoying every sip
of traffic noise
街角の喫茶店．．．
往来の物音を一口ずつ味わう
café full
no one
to fill in
コーヒーは満ちている
満たしてくれる人は無し
table to table
following the shade
I drop haiku
テーブルからテーブルへ
陰を追い
私は俳句をひねる
hot day
street vendor scraping
bottom ice
暑い日
路上の物売りがスクラップにしている
底の氷を
cold call
the cup of coffee
losing heat
売り込み電話
コーヒーのカップ
熱を失っている
juice bar …
she gets it
every night
ジュース バー．．．
彼女が飲みに来る
毎晩
her daiquiri —
the lemon slice’s
sour smile
彼女のダイキリ．．．
レモンの薄切りの
すっぱい微笑み
breeze blows
across pineapple pizza
scent of blooms
そよ風が吹く
パイナップルのピザを横切って
花の匂い
spring draft
the ruffled hair
of a new worm
春の通風
生まれたての虫のかき乱れた髪
windy corner
cup and spoon
click
風のあるすみ
カップとスプーンがカチット音を立てる
café shut
shooting the breeze
dry papaya leaves
カフェーが閉じる
そよ風を送り出す
乾いたパパイアの葉
Teddy Wojnicki
US/Taiwan
We sincerely hope that you will share his stay in Taiwan through his haiku and photos with Teddy Wojnicki.
Here are three more photos.
The next posting ‘Haiku by Brian Birdsell (McSherry) for Int’l Haiku Spring Festival 2010 ’ appears tomorrow on May 21.
― Hidenori Hiruta
