closing day
vine tomatoes
warm my hands
2nd Place, Kaji Aso Studio 23rd Annual Haiku Contest, 2011
Beverley George
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
收盤日
帶藤的蕃茄
溫暖我的手
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
收盘日
带藤的蕃茄
温暖我的手
Bio Sketch
Beverley George is the past editor of Yellow Moon and the founder/editor of Eucalypt: a tanka journal 2006 - . In September 2009 she convened the 4th Haiku Pacific Rim Conference, in Terrigal, Australia. Beverley presented papers on haiku in Australia at the 3rd Haiku Pacific Rim conference in Matsuyama, Japan in 2007, and on Australian tanka at the 6th International Tanka Festival, Tokyo 2009. She was the president of the Australian Haiku Society 2006-2010.
L1 sets the setting, and the verb choice -- comb -- for portraying the evocative image in Ls 2&3 enhances the emotive aspects of the poem.
ReplyDeleteSorry, it`s warm, not comb.
ReplyDeleteChen-ou