Father's Day --
in her sleep my wife
calls me Dad
Honorable Mention, 2013 Mainichi Haiku Contes
Kashinath Karmakar
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
父親節 --
在睡夢中我的妻子
叫我爸爸
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
父亲节 --
在睡梦中我的妻子
叫我爸爸
Bio Sketch
Kashinath
Karmakar (kash poet) lives in Durgapur, India. An electrical engineer by
profession, he came to know about haiku in 2011 through a poetry site
called poetrysoup. His works have appeared in various online and print
journals like Frogpond, Tinywords, The Heron's Nest, Prune Juice, and Creatrix. In
2013 he won third prize in Kusamakura International Haiku Contest and
a HM in the Mainichi International Haiku Contest. He has over the years
placed among the top in several kuka.
L1 establishes the thematic context of the poem while Ls 2&3 portray a heartfelt sense of loss.
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