Sunday, August 31, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Old Letters Haiku by Daniela Misso

English Original

old letters 
embers crackle 
with memories

Under the Basho, October 16 2022

Daniela Misso


Chinese Translation (Traditional) 

一疊舊信
餘燼劈啪作響
充滿回憶

Chinese Translation (Simplified) 

一叠旧信
余烬劈啪作响
充满回忆


Bio Sketch

Daniela Misso lives with her husband and son in Umbria, Italy where she composes verses. Winner of national and international competitions, she has many haiku published in magazines. She is the author of the book, Connessioni Sottili, ed. FusibiliaLibri, 2021.

1 comment:

  1. L1 sets the tone and mood while multi-sensorily evocative Ls 2&3 makes this haiku highly relatable and poignantly effective.

    And my senryu (comic haiku) below could be read as its prequel:

    attic letters
    the musty smell
    of her love

    Failed Haiku, 4:43, 2019

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