Moon Tanka For Li Po Poem by Chen-ou Liu

gazing up
at the moon over Ajax
I realize
it's bigger than
the one Li Po wrote of

Simply Haiku,7: 3, Autumn 2009


Note: Li Bai (705 – 762) , also known as Li Po, was a Chinese poet acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius and romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights. He and his friend Du Fu (712–770) were the two most prominent figures in the flourishing of Chinese poetry in the mid-Tang Dynasty that is often called the 'Golden Age of China'... excerpted from the Wikipedia entry, 'Li Bai'