English Original
the cameras
of a privileged few
focus
on the polar bears
stepping towards extinction
Skylark, 6:2, Winter 2018
of a privileged few
focus
on the polar bears
stepping towards extinction
Skylark, 6:2, Winter 2018
Keitha Keyes
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
少數特權之人
的相機
聚焦在
走向滅絕
的一群北極熊
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
少数特权之人
的相机
聚焦在
走向灭绝
的一群北极熊
Bio Sketch
Keitha Keyes lives in Sydney, surrounded by antique irons and ship models. She enjoys writing tanka, haiku, senryu, cherita and related genres. Her work is published in many journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas.
Keitha's socio-environmentally conscious tanka builds, line by line, to a thematically significant and visually poignant ending that reveals the theme of Arctic tourism.
ReplyDeleteAnd it might be interesting to do a comparative reading of the following tanka:
each of them
wants a part of me
I am Antarctica
belonging to no one
yet bearing many flags
NeverEnding Story, January 25, 2016
Kat Lehmann
FYI: "In some Arctic areas, tourism (especially cruise tourism) is one of the fastest growing economic sectors. ... In 2017 the first cruise trip made the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean and in August, around the Svalbard Islands, there were around 17 cruise ships..."