English Original
hushed
midnight forest
I wait
for the swoop
of the owl
Roberta Beach Jacobson
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
安靜
的午夜森林
我等待
一隻貓頭鷹
的猛撲
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
安静
的午夜森林
我等待
一只猫头鹰
的猛扑
Bio Sketch
Roberta Beach Jacobson (twitter: @beach_haiku) makes her home in Iowa, USA. Her tanka have been published at Under the Basho.
Roberta's middle-of-the-story tanka effectively builds, line by line, to a visually and atmospherically powerful ending: the owl appears to be ready to grab something while the speaker waits silently.
ReplyDeleteAnd it might be interesting to do a comparative reading of my tanka below:
alone
with my thoughts --
an owl
drifts moth-like
over the barren field
Revision, Frameless Sky, 3, 2015