Friday, March 31, 2017

Butterfly Dream: Bird Haiku by Elizabeth Crocket

English Original

out of the dark
a bird flies
into moonlight

Elizabeth Crocket


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

離開黑暗
一隻鳥飛入
月光中

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

离开黑暗
一只鸟飞入
月光中


Bio Sketch

Elizabeth Crocket has had haiku published in Mayfly, Modern Haiku, Shamrock, Asahi Network, Frogpond, NeverEnding Story and more. Her chapbook of haibun, Not Like Fred and Ginger, was shortlisted for the Touchstone Distinguished Book Award in 2014. Samples of Elizabeth's writing can be found on her website.
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2 comments:

  1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐March 31, 2017 at 7:29 AM

    This is a fine example of ichibutsu shitate (single-object poem, "which [focuses] on a single topic and in which the hokku [flows] smoothly from start to finish, without the leap or gap found in the composition poem," "Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho," p. 111). And the contrast between the dark and the moonlight is visually and symbolically effective.

    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

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  2. ElizabethMarch 31, 2017 at 3:33 PM

    Thank you, Chen-ou.
    It is always such a tremendous honour to be published in NeverEnding Story.

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