Thursday, November 2, 2017

Butterfly Dream: Eagle Haiku by Jan Dobb

English Original

cloud watching --
the drift of an eagle
earth watching

paper wasp, 17:2, Autumn 2011

Jan Dobb


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

觀賞雲彩 --
一隻鷹注視著地面
在天空漂移

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

观赏云彩 --
一只鹰注视著地面
在天空漂移


Bio Sketch

Jan Dobb lives in Canberra, Australia. She has published three family history narratives, and her short stories have had some success in publication and competition.  Since 2010 however Jan has been captivated by the magic of haiku.

1 comment:

  1. Jan's effective use of syntactic parallelism (cloud watching/earth watch) reveals not only two different perspectives of seeing things but also the relationship between man and nature.

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