reading Raizan
"the spring rain”
starts to rain
Simply Haiku, 7:2, Summer 2009
Dick Whyte
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
閱讀來山
“春雨”
開始下雨
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
阅读来山
“春雨”
开始下雨
Bio Sketch
Dick Whyte is an artist from Wellington, New Zealand, who works in a wide range of media (video, music, poetry, visual art, sculpture). He has been writing haiku (and related forms) for the past 6 years, and is the co-editor of Haiku News, a poetry journal dedicated haiku, tanka, senryu and kyoka that engages with sociopolitical issues and themes.
This is a beautifully-crafted, two-axis haiku, which alludes to the following poem by Raizan
ReplyDeletethe spring rain
reflected in the ox's eyes
unaware its falls