Butterfly Dream: Dozing Cattle Haiku by Sonam Chhoki

English Original

mid-summer sun
by a field of dozing cattle
a new McDonald’s

Failed Haiku, 2:15, March 2017

Sonam Chhoki


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

仲夏的陽光
在滿是打瞌睡牛群的田野旁
一家新的麥當勞

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

仲夏的阳光
在满是打瞌睡牛群的田野旁
一家新的麦当劳 


Bio Sketch

Sonam Chhoki finds the Japanese short form poetry resonates with her Tibetan Buddhist upbringing.  She is inspired by her father, Sonam Gyamtsho, the architect of Bhutan's non-monastic modern education and by her mother, Chhoden Jangmu, who taught her: “Being a girl doesn’t mean you can’t do anything.” She is the principal editor, and co-editor of haibun for the United Haiku and Tanka Society journal, cattails.