Sunday, February 3, 2019

Butterfly Dream: Garden Snail Haiku by Nikolay Grankin

English Original

spring rain
out of itself
a garden snail

Runner-Up, 2017 Golden Haiku Contest

Nikolay Grankin


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

春雨
從它的殼爬出來
花園裡的蝸牛

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

春雨
从它的壳爬出来
花园里的蜗牛 


Bio Sketch

Nikolay Grankin lives in Krasnodar, Russia. He has been written haiku for about seven years. And in 2017, He started to write haiku in English.
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2 comments:

  1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐February 3, 2019 at 8:56 AM

    A lovely moment is keenly captured in this imagistic haiku.

    Nicely done.

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    1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐February 3, 2019 at 11:02 AM

      The following snail haiku could be read as a sequel to Nikolay's:

      a snail’s trail ...
      all night this meandering
      toward the moon

      Second Prize, 2017 Autumn Moon Haiku Contest

      Lorin Ford

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