wood knot
in my pocket
fog over water
Blithe Spirit, 24:2, May 2014
Marilyn Fleming
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
木結
在我的口袋裡
河水上的霧
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
木结
在我的口袋里
河水上的雾
Bio Sketch
Marilyn Fleming was born and raised on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Her poetry has been published in various literary journals and anthologies. She has a special interest in oriental forms of poetry and won her first prize in the Hildegarde Janzen Oriental Forms Award in 1988.
Ls 1&2 set the thematic context while the visually and emotionally evocative image in L3 enhances the mood of the poem.
ReplyDeleteNote: "A knot is a particular type of imperfection in a piece of timber, which reduces its strength, but which may be exploited for artistic effect."