Saturday, February 6, 2016

Butterfly Dream: Tulips Haiku by Agnes Eva Savich

English Original

partly cloudy
tulips in shadow
tulips in light

Frogpond, 27:3, Autumn 2004

Agnes Eva Savich


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

局部陰天
陰影中的鬱金香
陽光中的鬱金香

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

局部阴天
阴影中的鬱金香
阳光中的鬱金香


Bio Sketch

Agnes Eva Savich has been writing haiku since 2003. She was a featured Southwestern haijin in Roadrunner in 2006. She has published a collection of early poetry, titled The Watcher: Poems (Cedar Leaf Press, 2009) and hopes to work on her first haiku book soon. She now lives in Austin, TX.

2 comments:

  1. The phrases "in shadow" and "in light" in Ls 2&3 effectively provide a scent link (in Basho's sense of the phrase) to L1, "partly" "cloudy," and Agnes's use of the zoom-in technique is emotionally effective.

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