Thursday, December 18, 2014

Butterfly Dream: Yellow Ladder Haiku by Debbie Strange

English Original

at dock's end
a yellow ladder
steps in sky

VerseWrights, 2013

Debbie Strange


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

在碼頭盡頭
一個黃色的梯子
伸入天空

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

在码头尽头
一个黄色的梯子
伸入天空


Bio Sketch

Debbie Strange belongs to the Writers' Collective of Manitoba and several haiku and tanka organizations. Her writing has received awards and been published in numerous journals. She is a singer-songwriter and photographer whose photographs have been published and exhibited.  She is currently assembling a haiga collection. Visit her on twitter @Debbie_Strange

2 comments:

  1. The unexpected yet powerful L3 takes the reader to climb down the ladder into the sky of imagination, and the bright color of a yellow ladder enhances the tone and mood of the poem, reminding me of Georgia O'Keeffe's famous 1958 painting, titled [yellow] Ladder to the Moon, http://www.georgiaokeeffe.net/ladder-to-the-moon.jsp

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  2. Below is my haiku inspired by O'Keeffe's painting:

    Ladder to the Moon...
    my childhood memories
    and sketches of them

    (for Georgia O'keeffe)

    Published in The Mainichi (Sep. 7, 2012)

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