Butterfly Dream: Inland Haiku by Barry George

English Original

gull's cry! --
my thoughts
far inland too

    

Frogpond, 20.2, 1997

 

Barry George
 

 

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

 

海鷗的哀鳴! --
我的思念
也遠在內陸

 

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

 

海鸥的哀鸣! --
我的思念
也远在内陆

 

 

Bio Sketch

 

Barry George’s haiku have been widely published in haiku journals, and in anthologies such as A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, The New Haiku, and Haiku 21. His poems have appeared in Japanese, German, Romanian, Croatian, and French translations. He has won international Japanese short-form competitions including First Prize in the Gerald R. Brady Senryu Contest.  Poems from his book, Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku, were nominated for a Pushcart Prize.