forty degrees
strong west winds blowing
through dry grass
madmen will come out
to light their fires
Eucalypt, 22, 2015
Paul Williamson
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
四十度高溫
強勁的西風
吹過一片乾草
瘋子們將會跑出來
點燃大火
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
四十度高温
强劲的西风
吹过一片干草
疯子们将会跑出来
点燃大火
Bio Sketch
Paul Williamson is an Australian poet who has published poems on eclectic topics in magazines including Neverending Story, Eucalypt, A Temple Bell Sounds, Tanka Music Anthology, Ragged Edges, Poems to Wear, Gusts, Skylark, Ribbons, Quadrant and Cordite. He writes poems to clarify feelings and impressions, and record them. He has four collections: The DNA Bookshelf, Moments from Red Hill, To the Spice Islands, and Edge of Southern Bright in 2017.
Paul’s tanka effectively builds, poetic phrase (ku)/line by poetic phrase (ku)/line, to a visually and emotionally powerful ending that has the most weight and reveals the theme of disaster, which reminds me of the 2017 California wildfires.
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