river kingfisher
a splash of blue
in the cloud
Honourable Mention, 71st Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest
Martha Magenta
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
一隻河翠鳥
雲彩裡
的一縷蔚藍
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
一只河翠鸟
云彩里
的一缕蔚蓝
Bio Sketch
Martha
Magenta lives in England, UK. Her haiku, and tanka have appeared in a
number of journals, and anthologies. She was awarded Honourable Mentions
for her haiku in The Fifth Annual Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards,
2017, and in the 71st Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest, 2017, and
for her tanka in UHTS “Fleeting Words” Tanka Contest 2017.
Juxtaposed with a "river kingfisher" and empowered by the technique of imagistic fusion, a "splash" of blue makes Martha's bird haiku visually and emotionally evocative.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful/joyful moment is keenly captured in her imagistic haiku.
Thank you Chen-ou Liu
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