English Original
approaching solstice
a shaft of light
finds summer
Upstate Dim Sum, Autumn 2020
Hilary Tann
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
臨近至日
一束光
發現夏天
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
临近至日
一束光
发现夏天
Bio Sketch
Hilary Tann was a founding member of the Route 9 Haiku Group known for its biannual anthology of haiku and senryu, Upstate Dim Sum. Her work has appeared in various publications, including 20 issues of Upstate Dim Sum (2001-2010) and Mann Library Archive (December 2008). And she was also an internationally acclaimed composer known for the lyricism and spirituality of her music and for her devotion to students over four decades of teaching at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
A fresh (L1) and visually and emotionally evocative way (Ls 2&3) of marking the "onset/the first light (L2), to be exact) of summer, i.e., summer solstice, which is impled from Ls 1&3.
ReplyDeleteAnd it might be interesting to read the following haiku with a thematically contrastive focus, winter solstice:
solstice sunshine --
snowflake caught
in a spiderweb
DailyHaiku, 9:18 , Fall 2014/Winter 2015
Kjmunro