English Original
tug of war
a child and the wind
in a kite pull
Tales of the Kite, 2023
Adjei Agyei-Baah
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
一場拔河比賽
一個孩子和大風
拉扯飛翔的風箏
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
一场拔河比赛
一个孩子和大风
拉扯飞翔的风筝
Bio Sketch
Adjei Agyei-Baah (June 29, 1977 -- December 18, 2023) was the co-founder of the Africa Haiku Network and The Mamba and author of afriku: haiku and Senryui from Ghana, 2016, Finding the Other Door, 2021 and Scaring Crow, 2022.
L1 sets the theme while L3 makes both these two cntestants in L2 playfully interesting and this flying kite haiku visually and emotionally engaging.
ReplyDeleteAnd it might be interesting to do a thematic comparison reading of the following haiku:
rumors of war
up into a darkening sky
a child's newsprint kite
Third Prize, 2003 Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award
Angelee Deodhar