a kingfisher skims the surface of this moment
brass bell, January 2015
Caroline Skanne
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
一隻翠鳥掠過這一刻的表面
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
一只翠鸟掠过这一刻的表面
Bio Sketch
Caroline Skanne, Rochester, UK is obsessed with anything wild and free. She is the founder of hedgerow: a journal of small poems. Her book ‘a hundred poems by caroline skanne’ is available from amazon.
Combined with the quick pace of a one-liner, Caroline's "ichibutsu shitate"("single-object/topic" poem)flows smoothly from start to finish, without the leap or gap found in a bipartite haiku. And the unexpected yet powerful closing phrase, "this moment," reveals the (psychological) impact of a skimming bird and lifts the poem up a notch.
ReplyDeleteNote: for more info. about Ichibutsu Shitate, see my "To the Lighthouse" post, "Ichibutsu Shitate (One-Image/Object/Topic Haiku)," which can be accessed at http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.ca/2015/01/to-lighthouse-ichibutsu-shitate-one.html