Sunday, December 17, 2017

Butterfly Dream: Silent Movie Haiku by Pamela A. Babusci

English Original

falling snow
i watch
a silent movie

Frogpond, 36:1, Winter 2013

Pamela A. Babusci

 

Chinese Translation (Traditional)
 

雪花飄落
我觀看一部無聲
的黑白電影
 

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

雪花飘落
我观看一部无声
的黑白电影


Bio Sketch

Pamela A. Babusci  is an internationally award winning haiku, tanka poet and haiga artist. Some of her awards include: Museum of Haiku Literature Award, International Tanka Splendor Awards, First Place Yellow Moon Competition (Aust) tanka category,  First Place Kokako Tanka Competition,(NZ) First Place Saigyo Tanka Awards (US), Basho Festival Haiku Contests (Japan).  Pamela has illustrated several books, including: Full Moon Tide: The Best of Tanka Splendor Awards, Taboo Haiku, Chasing the Sun, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, and A Thousand Reasons 2009. Pamela was the founder and now is the solo Editor of Moonbathing: a journal of women’s tanka; the first all women’s tanka journal in the US.

2 comments:

  1. In this room of one's own isolated from the snowy world of one color, watching a silent/black and white movie effectively adds a nostalgic feel to the poem.

    A fine mood haiku.

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  2. many thx chen-ou! you are most kind! pamela

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