Thursday, September 5, 2013

Butterfly Dream: Graveyard Haiku by Máire Morrissey-Cummins

English Original

graveyard visit
a spider's web glitters
in a broken vase

Sketchbook, 2012

Máire Morrissey-Cummins


Chinese Translation (Traditional)



墓地探訪 
蜘蛛網閃爍
在一個破碎的花瓶

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

墓地探访
蜘蛛网闪烁
在一个破碎的花瓶


Bio Sketch

Máire Morrissey-Cummins is from Ireland and was named in the top 100 European Creative Haiku list of 2012. She has been published in Bamboo Dreams and is a member of Haiku Ireland and the Irish Haiku Society.
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3 comments:

  1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐September 5, 2013 at 12:11 AM

    L1 successfully sets an emotive context while Ls 2&3 enhance the tone and mood.

    And the concluding image not only indicates the passage of time, but also implies a past relationship not in good shape

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  2. KerkedijkSeptember 5, 2013 at 3:23 AM

    Chen-ou-Liu, thank you for your thoughts and translation on this ku. I appreciate it and you are correct in your analysis. Maire

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  3. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐September 5, 2013 at 11:09 AM

    Maire:

    Glad you liked my reading.

    Thanks for your support of my project.

    And look forward to reading more of your new work.

    Chen-ou

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