Saturday, March 19, 2016

Butterfly Dream: Narrow Path Haiku by Sylvia Forges-Ryan

English Original

Taking the narrow path
I follow the song
of an unknown bird    

Chrysanthemum, 18, October 2015

Sylvia Forges-Ryan


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

步上窄路
我追尋不知名鳥
的歌聲

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

步上窄路
我追寻不知名鸟
的歌声


Bio Sketch

Internationally known poet Sylvia Forges-Ryan is a former Editor of Frogpond, the journal of the Haiku Society of America, and author of Take a Deep Breath: The Haiku Way to Inner Peace.

1 comment:

  1. This enlightening man-nature relationship is vividly portrayed through the emotionally resonant juxtaposition of images, and on a second reading, "narrow path" in L1 successfully adds symbolic significance to the poem.

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