this morning
whiff of jasmine
in my room --
amid my silence
his last words still echo
The Bamboo Hut, 2:1, 2014
Archana Kapoor Nagpal
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
今天早上
我的房間裡
有一股茉莉花香味 --
我保持沉默之時
他的最後話語仍在迴響
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
今天早上
我的房间里
有一股茉莉花香味 --
我保持沉默之时
他的最後话语仍在迴响
Bio Sketch
Archana Kapoor Nagpal is an internationally published author of 7 books, including 14 Pearls of Inspiration, The Road to a Positive Life, The Fragrance of a Beautiful Life, A Pinch of Love, Peace and Humanity, New Love: Anthology of Short Stories and the 12 Facets of a Crystal.
Structured into two parts and made up of five poetic phrases (5 ku), Archana’s tanka effectively builds, phrase/line (ku) by phrase/line (ku), to an emotionally powerful ending that has the most weight and reveals the theme of loss and memory. And the role of "whiff of jasmine," in the prefatory image that resonates closely with the emotional point of the poem, functions more like that of the madeleine -- a delicate cookie -- in Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past."
ReplyDeleteTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.
― Marcel Proust