Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Butterfly Dream: Blue Moon Haiku by Michele L. Harvey

English Original

a spare button
on my coat hem
blue moon

Michele L. Harvey


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

備用鈕扣
在我的外套下擺
藍月

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

备用钮扣
在我的外套下摆
蓝月


Bio Sketch

Michele L. Harvey is a professional landscape painter living in New York. Her year is divided between homes in rural central NY and New York City. Her poetry has been  accepted by most of the current short form poetry publications and she has won  numerous national and international Japanese short form poetry contests, both in  haiku and tanka. You may view both her paintings and examples of her poetry online 

4 comments:

  1. The juxtaposition of /comparison between "spare button" and "blue moon" (additional full moon appearing in a subdivision of a year) is atmospherically effective, lifting the poem out of the ordinary.

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    1. Thank you very much Chen-ou Liu. I'm honored to be included in your lovely blog.

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