English Original
with me the same cloud out of the covered bridge
The Haiku Anthology, 1974
vincent tripi
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
走出廊橋 同一朵雲和我在一起
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
走出廊桥 同一朵云和我在一起
Bio Sketch
Founder of The Haiku Circle, vincent tripi was closely associated with the spiritual movement in American Haiku. He wrote haiku for over 35 years, and published 14 books of haiku. Most of his haiku reflect a Buddhist foundation.
This haiku by tripi is a wonderful example of his transcendental style. It gives us an image of a person going for a walk on a beautiful day, all alone except for one cloud in the sky. The cloud follows the walker, until he or she goes into a covered bridge, and the cloud disappears. However, when coming out of the covered bridge, there again is the cloud, like a faithful friend. Although the cloud may just be a suspended collection of water molecules, Tripi sees it as a creature tied even to a complex human being. He creates a bond between the walker and the cloud.... -- excerpted from Kay Millikin on vincent tripi's Haiku, accessed at http://brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/writerprofiles/KayMillikinOnTripi.html FYI: Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature defines transcendentalism as the belief in "the essential unity of all creation, the goodness of humankind, and the supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths" (p. 1128)
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