Sunday, April 14, 2019

Butterfly Dream: Shadow Haiku by Debbi Antebi

English Original

walking alone
even my shadow
slips away

Presence, 59, 2017

Debbi Antebi


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

獨自步行
甚至我的影子
都溜走了

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

独自步行
甚至我的影子
都溜走了


Bio Sketch

Debbi Antebi (@debbisland) lives in London, UK, with her husband and books. She exhales oxygen while reading and writing poems.

1 comment:

  1. A sense of loneliness is conveyed through this visually and emotionally evocative image of the speaker who walks alone with his/her shadow slipping away. And "even" effectively adds emotional weight to the haiku.

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