English Original
funeral's end --
a whisper passed
from ear to ear
Bundled Wild Flowers, 2020
Michael Dylan Welch
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
葬禮結束 --
流言
傳來傳去
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
葬礼结束 --
流言
传来传去
Bio Sketch
Michael Dylan Welch is the founder of the Tanka Society of America (2000), and co-founder of Haiku North America conference (1991) and the American Haiku Archives (1996). In 2010 he also started National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo), which takes place every February, with an active Facebook page. His personal website is www.graceguts.com, which features hundreds of essays, reviews, reports, and other content, including examples of his published poetry.
L1 sets the theme and mood while Ls 2&3 reveal something "unpleasant" about the deceased person or his/her family members or the relationships among them, or the relationships among the deceased person, his/her family and friends and relatives ... or "just something about Human Nature. " This "guessing game/this reader's interpretations function/s like a chain of gossip/whispers.
ReplyDeleteThe following is a funeral "haiku sequence" (arranged by this reader) that could be read as a possible scenario for the backstory behind Michael's haiku:
Deleteall day rain
we argue over music
for the funeral
John McManus
funeral sermon --
the slide show
fades to blue
kjmunro
funeral's end --
a whisper passed
from ear to ear
Michael Dylan Welch
after the funeral ...
colors of the rainbow
muted by dusk
Rebecca Drouilhet