black coffee
on New Year’s morning
spangles of sunlight
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Chen-ou Liu
Chen-ou Liu lives in Ajax, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of five books, including Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Competition), His tanka and haiku have been honored with many awards.
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Lovely, Chen-ou. I like the contract between darkness and light and love 'spangles of sunlight' – which suggests hope for the year to come – but I guess it could also refer to dizziness from a New Year's Eve party! :)
A lovely image, really like the poem! This is so an everyday situation, though it gets a special meaning for the New Year morning being a first morning of the year and a nice time to start new things…
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A well caught last line capturing that special early light of the day, and it's bouncing around everything including the teaspoon if you were adding sugar. :)
Lovely, Chen-ou. I like the contract between darkness and light and love 'spangles of sunlight' – which suggests hope for the year to come – but I guess it could also refer to dizziness from a New Year's Eve party! :)
marion
How lovely to read on this cold morning!
Where I live it would have to be a late morning for a glimpse of sunlight on New Year's, but I still like the sentiment of the poem.
A lovely image, really like the poem! This is so an everyday situation, though it gets a special meaning for the New Year morning being a first morning of the year and a nice time to start new things…
Lovely haiku with juxtaposition. I read it twice and could discover the beauty of art-of-words!
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A well caught last line capturing that special early light of the day, and it's bouncing around everything including the teaspoon if you were adding sugar. :)
warm regards,
Alan
Beautiful Chen-ou. I especially love "spangles of sunlight".
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