homecoming ...
a bouquet of sky
in an old jar
First Place, 2017 Australian Haiku Society Spring Haiga Kukai
Debbie Strange
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
返鄉 ...
舊罐子裡一束蔚藍
的天空顏色
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
返乡 ...
旧罐子里一束蔚蓝
的天空颜色
Bio Sketch
Debbie
Strange is an award-winning Canadian short form poet, haiga artist, and
photographer. Keibooks released her second full-length poetry
collection, Three-Part Harmony: Tanka Verses, in 2018, and Folded Word published her haiku chapbook, A Year Unfolding, in 2017. An archive of publications may be accessed at http://debbiemstrange.blogspot.com/
L1 sets the theme while visually evocative Ls 2&3 enhance the tone and mood of the haiku. And the fresh phrasing and perspective employed in L2 make this homecoming haiku emotionally effective.
ReplyDeleteA worthy first place haiku in the kukai. Lovely to see it translated to chinese with a fine comment. Thank you Debbie and Chen-ou Liu Ron Moss
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