English Original
the river’s song
blends with Chopin
in my ears
coaxing my spirit
from a boxed-in day
Thelma Mariano
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
河流之歌
與簫邦的音樂融入
在我的耳朵裡
它引誘受困日子中
我的心靈
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
河流之歌
与箫邦的音乐融入
在我的耳朵里
它引诱受困日子中
我的心灵
Bio Sketch
Thelma Mariano is the author of Night Sky: a Selection of Tanka Poetry. She lives in Montreal and has published her tanka in literary journals as well as in various anthologies including Fire Pearls and Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka.
Thelma's one-sentence tanka effectively builds, line/poetic phrase by line/poetic phrase, to a thematically significant and emotionally powerful ending that reveals the theme of the healing power (Ls 4&5) of music (Ls 1&2).
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