Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Butterfly Dream: Unfulfilled Dream Haiku by Agnes Eva Savich

English Original

unfulfilled dream
so many dandelions
along the highway

Runner Up, 2017 Golden Triangle Haiku Contest

Agnes Eva Savich


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

沒有實現的夢想
一路沿著高速公路
這麼多的蒲公英

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

没有实现的梦想
一路沿着高速公路
这么多的蒲公英


Bio Sketch

Agnes Eva Savich has been writing haiku since 2003. She was a featured Southwestern haijin in Roadrunner in 2006. She has published a collection of early poetry, titled The Watcher: Poems (Cedar Leaf Press, 2009) and hopes to work on her first haiku book soon. She now lives in Austin, TX.

3 comments:

  1. L1 sets the theme and emotional context while the eye-catching and symbolically rich image of Ls 2&3 makes an effective shift in the tone and mood of the haiku.

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    1. Thank you Chen-ou for your thoughts on my poem, and for translating it! -AGnes

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  2. it might be interesting to do a comparative reading of the following highway haiku:

    midnight moon
    the highway stretches
    into morning

    Deborah P. Kolodji

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