Monday, June 8, 2020

Butterfly Dream: Oncology Ward Haiku by Marilyn Humbert

English Original

laughter mingles
with beeping machines
oncology ward

Creatrix, 43, 2018

Marilyn Humbert


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

笑聲和機器的嘟嘟聲
交融在一起
腫瘤病房

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

笑声和机器的嘟嘟声
交融在一起
肿瘤病房


Bio Sketch

Marilyn Humbert lives in the Northern suburbs of Sydney NSW Australia. Her tanka and haiku appear in international and Australian journals, anthologies and online. Her free verse poems have been awarded prizes in competitions and some have been published.

1 comment:

  1. Marilyn's haiku effectively builds, line by line, to a thematically and emotionally powerful ending that reveals the theme of laughter/life and pain/illness entangled together.

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