English Original
kicking
through the leaves
sound of its season
BBC Television Regional Arts Feature, November 2003
Alan Summers
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
一腳接一腳踢
穿過一堆堆樹葉
季節之聲
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
一脚接一脚踢
穿过一堆堆树叶
季节之声
Bio Sketch
Alan Summers is President of the United Haiku and Tanka Society, and co-founder of Call of the Page. He enjoys watching classic episodes of Dr. Who, all over again, as his ten year old nephew has discovered them for himself. Website: www.callofthepage.org
The haiku is about a set of actions around a single image of leaves on the ground, as it’s the Fall/Autumn. What child, and even adult, has not wanted to kick through a mound of autumnal leaves! So many of us love to hear the sound of the dry crispness, and crackling sound, of the leaves that are a strong symbol of Autumn. We are literally kicking through the sound of the season!
ReplyDelete-- excerpted from "To the Lighthouse: The Unseen Go-Between in Haiku by Alan Summers," accessed at https://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2023/08/poetic-musings-sound-of-season-haiku-by.html