English Original
tree shadows
ride the carousel
abandoned park
Modern Haiku, 50:3, Fall 2019
Mohammad Azim Khan
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
樹影
乘坐旋轉木馬
廢棄的公園
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
树影
乘坐旋转木马
废弃的公园
Bio Sketch
Mohammad Azim Khan is a retired UN official who has travelled to many war-torn countries to oversee relief and disaster operations. He graduated from Peshawar University with Master's degrees in both English Literature and Economics. He has since developed a special interest in haiku and tanka. And he has published many poems in journals around the world.
Enhanced by the use of the cinematic zoom-out technique, Mohammad's haiku effectively builds, line by line, to a visually and emotionally poignant ending. And on a second reading, the "carousel" in an "abandoned park," effectively carries emotional and symbolic significance as seen in the following haiku:
ReplyDeletecarousel moving through my childhood
Rattle, 51, 2016
Roberta Beary