English Original
roof leak
streaks of silver
on my painting
Lakshman Bulusu
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
屋頂漏水
在我的畫布上
的銀色條紋
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
屋顶漏水
在我的画布上
的银色条纹
Bio Sketch
Lakshman Bulusu is an international poet, author, and educator. He is published in over thirty poetry and haiku journals in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Taiwan, and India. He invented the STAR poem genre and MIRACLE STAR poem genre in 2016 and 2021 respectively. He is based in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
L1 sets the scene and mood while visually evocative and thematically allusive L 2 reminds me of "silver linings," which means this desperate or at least unhappy situation in L1 may have a positive aspect to it (because of making the painting in L3 more visually attractive or pleasing).
ReplyDeleteAnd my haiku below could be read as a prequel to Lakshman 's:
Deleterain on the roof…
he wonders
how to kill time
Simply Haiku, 8:3, Winter 2011
FYI: This is the opening haiku of my haibun, "Sunday Afternoon," for Benny
... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
― Susan Ertz