Thursday, May 17, 2018

Butterfly Dream: Hillside Path Haiku by Lysa Collins

English Original

hillside path --
catching the scent of hyacinths
I retrace my steps

Lysa Collins


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

山坡路 --
為了享受風信子的香味
我走回原路

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

山坡路 --
为了享受风信子的香味
我走回原路


Bio Sketch

Lysa Collins is an environmentalist who currently lives on the west coast of British Columbia, overlooking the Strait of Georgia, where she writes haiku and other short forms of poetry.  Her poems appear locally, nationally, and internationally, in a variety of print and online publications.

2 comments:

  1. Lysa's ginko (haiku walk) haiku on the scent of spring (hyacinths blooming in spring) is written in a new and fresh way.

    [The emotionally suggestive power of poetry] comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates a sense of the [everyday] sacred.

    -- paraphrasing Allen Ginsberg

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  2. Excellent piece, I really enjoyed it Lysa!

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