English Original
you went through the motions
I was lost in the chill
our baby never was
but I know her face
in my dreams
Leslie Bamford
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
你看過所有的離婚提案
在寒意中我搞不清楚它們的含義
我們的孩子從未活過
但在我的夢裡
我曉得她的面容
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
你看过所有的离婚提案
在寒意中我搞不清楚它们的含义
我们的孩子从未活过
但在我的梦里
我晓得她的面容
Bio Sketch
you went through the motions
I was lost in the chill
our baby never was
but I know her face
in my dreams
Leslie Bamford
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
你看過所有的離婚提案
在寒意中我搞不清楚它們的含義
我們的孩子從未活過
但在我的夢裡
我曉得她的面容
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
你看过所有的离婚提案
在寒意中我搞不清楚它们的含义
我们的孩子从未活过
但在我的梦里
我晓得她的面容
Bio Sketch
Leslie
Bamford is a published Canadian writer of short stories, poems and
plays, and teacher of creative non-fiction writing and memoir. She has
recently retired and begun to write tanka as a new form of creativity.
For more about Leslie and her work, visit www.lesliebamford.com
In such a short space of five lines with a thematic and structural focus on L3, Leslie's heart-wrenching tanka effectively conveys the speaker's grief experience and the impact of the loss on her marital relationship.
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