Saturday, October 24, 2015

Butterfly Dream: Nest Haiku by Keitha Keyes

English Original

No junk mail …
starlings build a nest
in the letter box

paper wasp, 19:2, winter 2013

Keitha Keyes


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

不要垃圾郵件 ...
椋鳥在郵箱裡面
築了一個巢

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

不要垃圾邮件 ...
椋鸟在邮箱里面
築了一个巢


Bio Sketch

Keitha Keyes lives in Sydney but her heart is still in the Australian bush where she grew up. She mostly writes tanka and related genres, revelling in the inspiration, friendship and generosity of these writing communities. Her work appears in many print and online journals and anthologies.

1 comment:

  1. The opening line shows the popular dislike of one significant feature of contemporary urban life, the receipt of unsolicited advertising material or junk mail, while the unexpected closing line reveals the transformative power of the natural world,


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