English Original
her smile
behind the face mask
faint bruises
Failed Haiku, 6:62, February, 2021
Milan Rajkumar
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
她的微笑
在面具後面
輕微瘀傷
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
她的微笑
在面具后面
轻微瘀伤
Bio Sketch
Milan Rajkumar is a secondary school teacher who teaches economics while writing haiku. He lives in a corner of the north eastern India. Genetically a mongoloid by look and food, he speaks a Tibeto-Burman language known as 'Manipuri' ‘Meiteilon’. Writing is his passion since childhood. Nowadays he writes haiku every day and night.
Enhanced by the pivot, visually evocative and symbolically rich L2, this haiku shows two contrasting elements side by side in a relationship: "happiness," as symbolized by "smile" in L1, and "violence," as manifested by "faint bruises" in L3
ReplyDeleteAnd the following haiku could be read as its sequel:
windfall apple
another bruise
I can’t hide
Prune Juice, July 2018
Rachel Sutcliffe
Thank you Chen-ou Liu! You are too kind!
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