Sunday, April 10, 2016

Butterfly Dream: Little Hen Haiku by Marilyn Humbert

English Original

little hen
scratches a hay nest
spring sunshine

Windfall, 3, 2015

Marilyn Humbert


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

小母雞
抓著乾草做成的巢
春天的陽光

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

小母鸡
抓著乾草做成的巢
春天的阳光
Bio Sketch

Marilyn Humbert lives in the Northern Suburbs of Sydney NSW surrounded by bush. Her pastimes include writing free verse poetry, tanka, tanka prose and related genre. She is the leader of Bottlebrush Tanka Group and member of the Huddle and Bowerbird Tanka Groups. Her tanka appears in Australian and international journals.
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2 comments:

  1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐April 10, 2016 at 10:26 AM

    A lovely moment, which might mark the first step in a new life journey, is vividly captured in Marilyn's haiku.

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  2. SeaviewApril 11, 2016 at 5:54 PM

    Lovely - it's like something Seamus Heaney might have penned!

    marion

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