Saturday, March 21, 2020

Butterfly Dream: Singing Haiku by Djurdja Vukelic Rozic

English Original

singing from balconies
no one is a stranger
just for a while

Djurdja Vukelic Rozic


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

站在陽台唱歌
只是短暫一會兒沒有人
是陌生人

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

站在阳台唱歌
只是短暂一会儿没有人
是陌生人


Bio Sketch

Djurdja Vukelic Rozic was born in 1956, lives in the town of Ivanic Grad, Croatia, edits the magazine IRIS, translates and writes poetry, humorous sketches, short stories, haiku and haibun. So far she has published twenty books and translated a number of collections and anthologies into English. And her poetry has received thirty awards.

1 comment:

  1. A heartwarming moment is keenly captured in this coronavirus haiku, and "just" in L3 says something poignant about the impact, physical and psychological, of this public health crisis on quarantined Italians.

    See this heartwarming YouTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDRiINXik00

    ReplyDelete