my fear --
the darkness
between stars
Simply Haiku, 7:2, Summer 2009
Kala Ramesh
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
我的恐懼 --
恆星之間
的黑暗
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
我的恐惧 --
恒星之间
的黑暗
Bio Sketch
Kala Ramesh has published more than one thousand poems comprising haiku, tanka, haibun, & renku in reputed journals and anthologies in Japan, Europe, UK, Australia, USA and India. Her work can be read in two prestigious publications: Haiku 21: an anthology of contemporary English-language Haiku (Modern Haiku Press, 2012) and Haiku in English - the First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton 2013). She enjoys teaching haiku and allied genres at the Symbiosis International University, Pune.
L 1 sets the context, thematic and emotive, for the poem while the image of an expanse of mostly empty, darkening sky in Ls 2&3 enhance the tone and mood.
ReplyDeleteThe shift from the speaker's inner state to the outer space gains added poignancy.