Chen-ou Liu Poems

winter dawn
a butterfly wakes up
in my dream
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A Tanka Prose
for Ernest Hemingway who claimed that
The important thing for a writer is to tell a good story...
The best ones are liars.
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I stretch out
in bed alone
the taste of moonlight
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hazy moonlight
through the bare branches
'Goldberg Variations'
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writing haiku...
the cock crows
as if possessed
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red spider lilies
blooming along the fence -
foreclosed house
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written in response to Hillary Clinton's presidential nomination

shards of glass
on the convention floor
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Water Snake Lantern zigzags
through Ketagalan Boulevard...
end of Chinese New Year
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clad in lily-white
she sweeps into each room
and out again....
the woman in my vision
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