Saturday, March 11, 2017

One Man's Maple Moon: Playlist Tanka by Shloka Shankar

English Original

the bird bath brims
with a chickadee's notes...
updating my playlist,
I still can't delete
our song

Skylark, 2:2, Winter 2014

Shloka Shankar


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

戲水鳥槽
充滿山雀的歌聲 ...
在更新歌曲播放目錄時,
我仍然無法刪除
我們的歌

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

戏水鸟槽
充满山雀的歌声
在更新歌曲播放目录时,
我仍然无法删除
我们的歌


Bio Sketch

Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer residing in India. Her work appears in over two dozen international anthologies. Her poems, erasures, haiku, haiga and tanka have appeared in numerous print and online journals. She is also the editor of the literary and arts journal, Sonic Boom

1 comment:

  1. The contrast between a "chickadee's notes" and a "couple's song" stored in a man-made device is emotionally poignant.

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