Wednesday, April 2, 2014

One Man's Maple Moon: Suicide Bombers Tanka by Luminita Suse

English Original

countless fireflies
crash into headlights
this summer
more suicide bombers
make the news

Haiku Canada Review, 7:2, October 2013

Luminita Suse


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

無數的螢火蟲
撞上車前燈
這個夏天
更多自殺式炸彈襲擊者
製造新聞

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

无数的萤火蟲
撞上车前灯
这个夏天
更多自杀式炸弹袭击者
製造新闻


Bio Sketch

Luminita Suse is the author of the tanka collection, A Thousand Fireflies, 2011, Editions des petits nuages. Her poetry appeared in Moonbathing: A Journal of Women's Tanka, Gusts, Atlas Poetica, Red Lights, Ribbons, A Hundred Gourds, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka 2010-2011, and Skylark. She got a honourable mention in the The 7th International Tanka Festival Competition, 2012.

1 comment:

  1. Luminita successfully establishes a simile between the two parts of the poem, inviting the reader to reflect on the differences, biological and sociopolitical, between the suicidal behavior of fireflies and that of bombers.

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