Thursday, April 9, 2020

Butterfly Dream: Mill Race Haiku by Jane Reichhold

English Original

mill race
spring sunshine
pushing the wheel

A Dictionary of Haiku, 2013

Jane Reichhold


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

磨坊水道
春天的陽光
推動磨輪

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

磨坊水道
春天的阳光
推动磨轮 


Bio Sketch

Jane Reichhold was born as Janet Styer in 1937 in Lima , Ohio , USA . She had published over thirty books of haiku, renga, tanka, and translations. Her latest tanka book, Taking Tanka Home was translated into Japanese by Aya Yuhki. Her most popular book is Basho The Complete Haiku by Kodansha International. As founder and editor of AHA Books, Jane also published Mirrors: International Haiku Forum, Geppo, for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, and she had co-edited with Werner Reichhold, Lynx for Linking Poets since 1992. Lynx went online in 2000 in AHApoetry.com the web site Jane started in 1995. Since 2006 she had maintained an online forum – AHAforum

1 comment:

  1. A glimpse of pastoral life is keenly captured in this spring haiku whose visually and emotionally suggestive power is enhanced by a fine verb choice, "pushing."



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