Saturday, March 7, 2020

Butterfly Dream: Speckled Egg Haiku by Kirsten Cliff Elliot

English Original

speckled egg
the sunlight
on my thoughts

The Heron's Nest, 16:1, March, 2014

Kirsten Cliff Elliot


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

有斑點的雞蛋
陽光
照亮我的想法

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

有斑点的鸡蛋
阳光
照亮我的想法 


Bio Sketch

Kirsten Cliff Elliot is a New Zealand poet and writer. She works in a high school library and is studying towards a BA in Information and Library Studies. Together with her husband, she blogs at Help! My husband has Asperger’s: Our life on the spectrum’s edge.

1 comment:

  1. The juxtaposition of speckled egg and shiny thoughts is fresh and visually and emotionally evocative, leaving enough dreaming room for the reader's imagination.

    Note: "Speckled eggs are pretty normal, as far as abnormal chicken eggs go. They look pretty, and it's wonderful how unique eggs can be. The speckles are actually extra calcium deposits, and are formed when the calcification process is disturbed or there's a defective shell gland."

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