Chen-ou Liu Poems

a foreclosed house
with the open door
autumn mist
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At 11, Malala Yousafzai took on the Taliban by championing female education; at 13, she has blogged for the BBC, drawing the world's attention to the plight and cause of the people of Swat Valley. Yesterday, the Taliban answered this 14-year-old girl's courage with bullets, shooting her in the head and neck.


Swat Valley
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a monarch
folds into silence...
budding petals
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Ferguson at twilight
'Walking While Black'
painted in black and white
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a tanka set for all would-be/depressed poets


their fingers grasp
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In his Christmas message, Pope Francis warned against 'a lust for power, hypocritical double lives and the lack of spiritual empathy among some men of God.'

'Repent, Ye Sinners! '
winter rain sweeping
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