Friday, August 25, 2017

Butterfly Dream: Weeds Haiku by Bob Lucky

English Original

another beheading ...
I let the weeds
run wild

Presence, 51, Jan. 2015

Bob Lucky


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

另一條斬首新聞 ...
我讓雜草
四處叢生

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

另一条斩首新闻 ...
我让杂草
四处丛生


Bio Sketch

Bob Lucky is the author of the chapbook Ethiopian Time and the content editor at Contemporary Haibun Online. He lives in Saudi Arabia.

1 comment:

  1. With an unusual yet thematically and emotionally poignant juxtaposition of "beheading" and "weeds," Bob's sociopolitically conscious haiku sparks the reader's reflection on the meaning of/right to life in times of war or armed conflict.

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