English Original
no love notes
to be found
except those
that I wrote
in my imagination
M. Kei
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
沒有找到
任何愛情的便條
除了那些
曾經書寫
在我的想像中
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
没有找到
任何爱情的便条
除了那些
曾经书写
在我的想像中
Bio Sketch
M. Kei is a tall ship sailor and award-winning poet who lives on Maryland’s Eastern shore. He is the editor of Atlas Poetica: A Journal of World Tanka. His most recent collection of poetry is January, A Tanka Diary. He is also the author of the award-winning gay Age of Sail adventure novels, Pirates of the Narrow Seas. He can be followed on Twitter @kujakupoet, or visit AtlasPoetica.org.
Ls 1&2 set the theme and mood, and combined with L5, the preposition of exclusion, except, in L3, is used to add emotional weight and psychological depth to the thematic focus of Ls 1&2.
ReplyDeleteAnd it might be interesting to do a thematic comparison reading of the tanka below:
on her skin he writes
invisible love letters
each word
a little warmer
than the next
Gusts, 22, 2015
Claudia Coutu Radmore