Saturday, May 2, 2015

Butterfly Dream: Unzipping the Sky Haiku by Debbie Strange

English Original

geese unzip the sky
a snowflake trembles
on your eyelashes

VerseWrights, 2013

Debbie Strange


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

一群鵝打開天空
在你的睫毛上
雪花顫動

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

一群鹅打开天空
在你的睫毛上
雪花颤动 


Bio Sketch

Debbie Strange belongs to the Writers' Collective of Manitoba and several haiku and tanka organizations. Her writing has received awards and been published in numerous journals. She is a singer-songwriter and photographer whose photographs have been published and exhibited.  She is currently assembling a haiga collection. Visit her on twitter @Debbie_Strange

1 comment:

  1. Debbie's use of the zoom-in technique is effective, and the contrasts between the two parts of the poem open up an interpretative space that allows the reader to co-author the poem.

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