Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Butterfly Dream: Prayer Haiku by Geethanjali Rajan

English Original

the same
prayer on every lip ...
a queue of pilgrims

Geethanjali Rajan


Chinese Translation (Traditional)


每張嘴都唸誦
同樣的禱告 ...
一群朝聖者

Chinese Translation (Simplified)


每张嘴都念诵
同样的祷告 ...
一群朝圣者


Bio Sketch

Geethanjali Rajan teaches Japanese and English in the city of Chennai, India. She writes prose, opinion pieces, haiku, tanka, haibun and other forms of poetry. Her writing can be found in various international journals online and some, in print. She is currently the editor of haiku at Cattails (UHTS).

1 comment:

  1. A spiritual experience deeply felt by a "queue of pilgrims" at this ritualistic moment (the "same prayer on every lip") is realistically and movingly depicted in Geethanjali Rajan's haiku.

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