Monday, December 18, 2017

Butterfly Dream: Thunderclouds Haiku by Cynthia Rowe

English Original

thunderclouds
lightning cuts into
our conversation

Indian Kukai, 11, June 2015

Cynthia Rowe


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

雷雲
閃電打斷我們
的談話

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

雷云
闪电打断我们
的谈话


Bio Sketch

Cynthia Rowe is Past President: Australian Haiku Society; Editor: Haiku Xpressions; Past President: Eastern Suburbs Branch FAW NSW. A University of Melbourne graduate in French and Philosophy, she was awarded a Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française by the French Ministry of Education. She has published seven novels, poetry collections Driftwood and Floating Nest (winner of the SWW Book Awards 2016).

1 comment:

  1. The visually and emotionally resonant juxtaposition makes this multi-sensory haiku effective, and on a second reading, "thunderclouds" and "lightning" effectively carry symbolic significance.

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