prairie sky
the depth
of a sigh
Winner, 2017 Touchstone Awards
Rajandeep Garg
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
草原的天空
一聲
長長的嘆息
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
草原的天空
一声
长长的叹息
Bio Sketch
Rajandeep Garg is an Indian poet, thinker, and music enthusiast. His poems have appeared in numerous haiku and tanka poetry journals and he was also one of the winners of the 2017 Touchstone Individual Poems Award. Rajandeep is the assistant editor of The Undertow Tanka Review.
“The wide open space of the prairie and its never-ending sky, with our awe captured in a deep sigh. The alliterative repeating "i" sounds create a resounding echo that inspires the reader to experience the haiku moment along with the poet.”
ReplyDelete“Only a haiku can capture the depth of such a moment. And this haiku does it very well as the ‘sigh.’”
“Such wide and expansive imagery is focused down to a deep sigh and we are left wondering whom, or what has created this emotion. Haiku such as these can be a journey to our own thoughts and impressions on the vastness of life.”
-- excerpted from Comments from the Panel, accessed at https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/touchstone-awards-for-2017/