Monday, December 23, 2013

Butterfly Dream: Chopsticks Haiku by Irena Szewczyk

English Original

lunch break
in the garden the click
of chopsticks

Daily Haiga, 14th April, 2013

Irena Szewczyk


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

午休時間
花園裡筷子
的碰撞聲

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

午休时间
花园里筷子
的碰撞声


Bio Sketch

Irena Szewczyk lives in Warsaw, Poland. She started to write haiku and make photo haiga in 2011. She publishes her works in English, French, Polish and Hungarian on her blog . Her haiku and haiga have been published in The Mainichi, The Asahi Shimbun, Daily Haiga, Haigaonline, Haiku Novine, Notes from the Gean, Sketchbook, Polish Haiku Anthology Blue Grasses, and WHA Haiga Contest, and she won a Honorable Mention in the HIA Haiku Contest.

3 comments:

  1. The twist at L3 makes this poem an interesting urban "sound (`the click of chopsticks') and sight ('garden scenery') haiku."

    Irena's use of enjambment is emotionally effective.

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  2. Irena's haiku is embedded in her 'lunch break' haiga, which can be accessed at http://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/1154/-lunch-break-by-irena-szewczyk-poland

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  3. Dear Chen-ou Liu
    thank you for publishing my haiku. I am happy to participate in your project.
    Best season's wishes.
    Irena

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