English Original
swirling leaves ...
these ten little fingers
of my deaf son
Cattails, April 2021
Agus Maulana Sunjaya
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
旋轉的落葉 ...
我聾啞兒子
的這十個小手指
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
旋转的落叶 ...
我聋哑儿子
的这十个小手指
Bio Sketch
Agus Maulana Sunjaya is a physics and mathematics teacher. He resides in Tangerang, westward to the capital of Indonesia. His works have been published in many online/print journals and have won several awards in international haiku contests. Gardening and practicing Aikido are his ways to spend leisure days.
Unexpected yet themtatically significant and visually evocative L3 makes this "child with nature" haiku emotionally powerful.
ReplyDeleteWhat's left unsaid (about these ten little fingers, L2, moving in swirling leaves, L1) effectively conveys a sense of "awe and wonder."
And it might be interesting to do a thematic comparative reading of the following haiku:
from star to star
down the Milky Way
a little finger
Down the Milky Way, 2016
Dejan Pavlinović