English Original
on this day
we share a rainbow ...
can we hold on
to the memory
in darker days to come
Gusts, 29, Spring/Summer 2019
Keitha Keyes
這一天
我們共享一道彩虹 ...
在未來更黑暗的日子裡
我們能夠保住
這段記憶嗎
这一天
我们共享一道彩虹 ...
在未来更黑暗的日子里
我们能够保住
这段记忆吗
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 tanka effectively builds, line by line, to a thematically significant and emotionally powerful ending that reveals the theme of finding joy (L2, shar[ing] a rainbow) during difficult times (L5, in darker days).
ReplyDeleteAnd it might be interesting to do a thematic comparative reading of the following tanka:
drizzling rain
all the day long
I await
the twilight sunshine
to paint my lost rainbow
Cattails, January 2016
Pravat Kumar Padhy