Saturday, December 31, 2016

Butterfly Dream: Year's End Haiku by Ken Sawitri

English Original

year's end --
leaking pot patched
by its lime crust

Wednesday Haiku, 204, March 18th, 2015

Ken Sawitri


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

年終 --
用石灰屑修補
鍋子的漏洞

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

年终 --
用石灰屑修补
锅子的漏洞


Bio Sketch

Ken Sawitri completed her degree in psychology at the University of Indonesia in 1993. Her haiku won the Second Prize in the 2013 Diogen Summer Haiku Contest. She dedicated her haiku to her motherland  in Listen The Spice Whispers, Haiku from Indonesian Archipelago and recorded her journey in the haiku posted at http://thisissawitri.blogspot.com

1 comment:

  1. L1 establishes the theme while the symbolically rich image in Ls 2&3 could be read as an authorial timely comment on tough economic times.

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