Friday, January 4, 2019

Butterfly Dream: Hospital Stay Haiku by Geethanjali Rajan

English Original

hospital stay --
outside my window
another leaf falls      

A Hundred Gourds, 1:3, June 2012

Geethanjali Rajan


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

住在醫院裡 --
我的窗外
另一片葉子飄落

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

住在医院里 --
我的窗外
另一片叶子飘落


Bio Sketch

Geethanjali Rajan teaches Japanese and English in the city of Chennai, India. She writes prose, opinion pieces, haiku, tanka, haibun and other forms of poetry. Her writing can be found in various international journals online and some, in print. She is currently the editor of haiku at Cattails (UHTS).
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1 comment:

  1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐January 4, 2019 at 9:39 AM

    L1 sets the theme while the visually and emotionally evocative image of a falling leaf in Ls 2&3 effectively conveys the gloomy mood of the haiku. And "another" successfully adds emotional weight to the haiku.

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