Sunday, July 7, 2024

Biting NOT Barking: Cyberbullying Haiku by Debbie Strange

English Original

cyberbullying
the buzz of a high voltage arc


Debbie Strange


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

網路霸凌
高壓電弧的嗡嗡聲

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

网路霸凌
高压电弧的嗡嗡声


Bio Sketch

Debbie Strange is an award-winning Canadian short form poet, haiga artist, and photographer. Keibooks released her second full-length poetry collection, Three-Part Harmony: Tanka Verses in 2018, and Folded Word published her haiku chapbook, A Year Unfolding in 2017. An archive of publications may be accessed at http://debbiemstrange.blogspotcom/

2 comments:

  1. There is a fresh and powerful analogy (using comparative imagery to lead to a logical conclusion, to THINK the impacts, physical, visual and emotional, of L1/L2; unlike a metaphor using imagery to evoke an emotion, to FEEL) effectively established in this two-line/bipartite haiku.

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    1. The most "in/famous" cyberbullying case in Canada:

      Amanda Michelle Todd (November 27, 1996 – October 10, 2012)[7][8] was a 15-year-old Canadian student and victim of cyberbullying who hanged herself at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. A month before her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube in which she used a series of flashcards to tell her experience of being blackmailed into exposing her breasts via webcam,[5] and of being bullied and physically assaulted. The video went viral after her death,[9] resulting in international media attention. The original video has had more than 15 million views as of May 2023 ... excerpted from Wikipedia Entry, "Suicide of Amanda Todd," accessed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Amanda_Todd

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