Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Butterfly Dream: Loneliness Haiku by Pamela A. Babusci

English Original

Christmas songs
deepening
the loneliness

Hummingbird, 10:2, December 1999

Pamela A. Babusci


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

聖誕歌聲
加深了
寂寞

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

圣诞歌声
加深了
寂寞


Bio Sketch

Pamela A. Babusci  is an internationally award winning haiku, tanka poet and haiga artist. Some of her awards include: Museum of Haiku Literature Award, International Tanka Splendor Awards, First Place Yellow Moon Competition (Aust) tanka category,  First Place Kokako Tanka Competition,(NZ) First Place Saigyo Tanka Awards (US), Basho Festival Haiku Contests (Japan).  Pamela has illustrated several books, including: Full Moon Tide: The Best of Tanka Splendor Awards, Taboo Haiku, Chasing the Sun, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, and A Thousand Reasons 2009. Pamela was the founder and now is the solo Editor of Moonbathing: a journal of women’s tanka; the first all women’s tanka journal in the US.

1 comment:

  1. The shift in mood and theme adds emotional weight to the poem.

    Christmas Will [Not] Be Just Another Lonely Day [by Brenda Lee, accessed at
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQgCDnhIZVs]

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