Friday, February 13, 2015

Butterfly Dream: Buddha & Dog Haiku by Kanchan Chatterjee

English Original

amidst the chants
Buddha
and a sleeping dog

Kanchan Chatterjee


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

在一片誦經聲中
佛佗
和一隻沉睡的狗

Chinese Translation (Simplified)


在一片诵经声中
佛佗
和一只沉睡的狗


Bio Sketch

Kanchan Chatterjee is a 46 year old executive, working in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He loves to write as and when he feels the urge, though he does not have a literary background. Some of his poems and haiku have been published in Mad Swirl, A Hundred Gourds, Under the Basho, Decanto, and Bare Hands Poetry. He was nominated for the Pushcart Award in 2012.

2 comments:

  1. The thematic and tonal shift at the end of the poem is humorously effective, and L3 could be read as a disguised authorial comment on the monotonous droning sound of the chants.

    A well-crafted haiku with an aesthetic focus on the "hai" (comic).

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  2. I love it. Pairing of two examples of perfect love.

    Here is my dog haiku

    Tell the dog
    the butterfly
    is on his head

    http://artbykathymitro.blogspot.com/2015/04/fine-art-haiku-must-have-for-all.html

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