Chen-ou Liu Poems

English teacher said
Just wipe 'I used to be....'
out of your mind
walking home alone
...

Alone at dawn
amid cherry blossoms
a butterfly’s dream
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Starless night
a lantern boat sailing
out to sea
...

to be her age
again, surrounded
by that blue mist
my tanka acts like
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holding his baby
up to the winter sky
gambling addict
...

the cold moon...
I want to touch her
into words
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Cathedral music
in an autumn afternoon
the air grows thin
...

an empty chair
at the Nobel ceremony...
thoughts of Tank Man
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