English Original
winter mountains
i lose myself
in whiteness
Third Place, Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Haiku Awards 2009
Pamela A. Babusci
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
冬季山脈
在無盡的一片純白中
我迷失了自己
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
冬季山脉
在无尽的一片纯白中
我迷失了自己
Bio Sketch
Pamela A. Babusci is an internationally award winning haiku, tanka poet and haiga artist. Some of her awards include: Museum of Haiku Literature Award, International Tanka Splendor Awards, First Place Yellow Moon Competition (Aust) tanka category, First Place Kokako Tanka Competition,(NZ) First Place Saigyo Tanka Awards (US), Basho Festival Haiku Contests (Japan). Pamela has illustrated several books, including: Full Moon Tide: The Best of Tanka Splendor Awards, Taboo Haiku, Chasing the Sun, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, and A Thousand Reasons 2009. Pamela was the founder and now is the solo Editor of Moonbathing: a journal of women’s tanka; the first all women’s tanka journal in the US.
Pamela starts with a wide-angle lens on "winter mountains" in L1, switches to a normal lens for a full body shot of the speaker,"I," in L2 and zooms in for a close-up in L3, the whiteess surrounding the speaker/I.
ReplyDeleteThis is a fine haiku where the cinematic zoom-in technique is effectively employed.
And Basho's most-known/loved winter haiku below could be read as a sequel to Pamela's:
winter solitude
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind