Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Butterfly Dream: Linden Shadows Haiku by Helen Buckingham

English Original

linden shadows
watching people watching
the blind man

2007 Suruga-Baika Literary Festival Award

Helen Buckingham


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

椴樹的影子
觀看人群觀看
一位盲人

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

椴树的影子
观看人群观看
一位盲人


Bio Sketch

Helen Buckingham was born in London, 1960 and has recently moved to Wells, Somerset. She has been writing haiku for the past two decades and her work has been placed in many awards, journals, and anthologies including: Haiku in English: the First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013).

1 comment:

  1. Helen's humorous use of repetition effectively explores the different "Ways of Seeing" (by British art critic and poet, John Berger)

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