Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Butterfly Dream: Spider Haiku by Elizabeth Crocket

English Original

weaving sunshine
through my screen
a spider

Elizabeth Crocket


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

一隻蜘蛛
正在編織通過屏風
的陽光

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

一隻蜘蛛
正在編織通過屏風
的陽光


Bio Sketch

Elizabeth Crocket writes haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun and photo-haiga. She has two chapbooks published by Red Moon Press. Her first women's fiction novel will be published in 2018. Samples of Elizabeth's writing can be found on her website.

2 comments:

  1. A fine example of "ichibutsu shitate." And the opening line is visually and emotionally effective.

    ... For example, Kyorai argues that, although combining different topics are important, “it [doesn’t] take precedence over other techniques and that Basho also [composes] ‘single-object’ (ichibutsu shitate) 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" (Ibid., p. 111)...

    -excerpted from "To the Lighthouse: 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. It's always such an honour, Chen-ou. Thank you!

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