shall I choose
to go back to the beginning
or is it better
to keep memory full
of what might have been
Hummingbird, 28:1, 2017
Kath Abela Wilson
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
我應該選擇
回到開頭之處
還是讓記憶保有
過去可能會發生
而從未發生之事
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
我應該選擇
回到開頭之處
還是讓記憶保有
過去可能會發生
而從未發生之事
Bio Sketch
Kath
Abela Wilson is the creator/leader of Poets on Site, Pasadena. She
creates a themed online Poetry Corner week for coloradoblvd.net inviting
short form poets and artists. Secretary of Tanka Society of America,
she is a poet, artist, dancer, percussionist, and world traveler with
her mathematics professor husband.
Kath's "sentence tanka" effectively builds, line by line, to a thematically significant ending that reveals the existential theme of making life choices.
ReplyDeleteLife is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.
-- John Maxwell