different clouds
on the horizon ...
final prognosis
tinywords, 16:2, 2 January 2017
Marion Clarke
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
不同的雲彩
在地平線上 ...
最終的癒後診斷
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
不同的云彩
在地平线上 ...
最终的癒後
Bio Sketch
Irish
Haiku Society (IHS) member Marion Clarke is a writer and artist from
Northern Ireland. In 2015 she was winner of the Financial Times ‘Poet in
the City’ haiku competition and runner up in the IHS International
Haiku Competition. In 2014 she was shortlisted for a Touchstone Award
for Individual Poems and was a Sakura award recipient in the Vancouver
Cherry Blossom Festival contest 2012. A selection of her haiku is
featured in two national collections of haiku from Ireland, Between the Leaves and Bamboo Dreams. Marion’s poetry and artwork can be found at http://seaviewwarrenpoint.wordpress.com
The opening natural image and the closing statement form a thematically dialectic and emotionally poignant relationship. And the longer pause ("...") at the end of L2 leaves more room for the reader's engagement.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Chen-ou. This was a particularly emotional haiku for me.
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