Butterfly Dream: Daybreak Haiku by Kanchan Chatterjee

English Original

daybreak ...
a drawn-out croak
then another

Kanchan Chatterjee


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

天剛亮 ...
烏鴉叫聲尖厲嘶啞
一聲接一聲

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

天刚亮 ...
乌鸦叫声尖厉嘶哑
一声接一声


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.