Sunday, July 1, 2018

Butterfly Dream: Morning Star Haiku by Debbie Strange

English Original

morning star
water droplets glint
on crane feathers

141st Haiga Contest, April 2016

Debbie Strange


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

晨星
在一隻鸛的羽毛上
水滴閃閃發光

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

晨星
在一只鹳的羽毛上
水滴闪闪发光


Bio Sketch

Debbie Strange is an award-winning Canadian short form poet, haiga artist, and photographer. Keibooks released her full-length poetry collection, Warp and Weft: Tanka Threads in 2015, and Folded Word published her haiku chapbook, A Year Unfolding in 2017. An archive of publications may be accessed at www.debbiemstrange.blogspot.ca.

1 comment:

  1. The contrast of lights (star light vs reflected light from the sun) between the two parts of this imagistic haiku is visually and emotionally effective.

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