Saturday, November 26, 2022

Butterfly Dream: Kiss Haiku by Jan Benson

English Original

home late --
the kiss you wanted,
the one you got

Failed Haiku , 1:4, April 2016
 
Jan Benson


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

晚歸 --
過去你渴望的吻,
你得到了那個吻

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

晚归 --
过去你渴望的吻,
你得到了那个吻


Bio Sketch

Jan Benson was a Pushcart Prize nominated haiku poet. Her haiku were published in many of the world's leading haiku journals and magazines. Jan was a member of The World Haiku Association and Poetry Society of Texas. Jan's profile can be found on The Haiku Foundation "Poet Registry" and online at The Living Haiku Anthology.

1 comment:

  1. Enhanced by the effective use of syntactic parallelism in Ls 2&3, L1 shows something thematically significant and emotionally poignant buried deep beneath this current displeasure/conflict.

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