Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Butterfly Dream: Mountain Retreat Haiku by Elizabeth Nicholls

English Original

mountain retreat ...
only fireflies
and shooting stars

Elizabeth Nicholls 


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

山區退修 ...
只有螢火蟲
和流星

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

山区退修 ...
只有萤火蟲
和流星 


Bio Sketch

Elizabeth Nicholls lives on the shore of the Indian Ocean in Perth, Western Australia. She spends many hours walking along the rugged coastline and composing haiku in her head whilst keeping a lookout for dolphins and ocean birds.  Elizabeth has been writing haiku for about seven years.

1 comment:

  1. There is a tonal difference between Elizabeth's haiku and the following poem:

    mountain retreat ...
    fireflies
    and shooting stars

    The use of "only" reveals something about the narrator's state of mood/mind.


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