Saturday, April 6, 2019

Butterfly Dream: Tsunami Haiku by Keith A. Simmonds

English Original

tsunami ...
a city hangs
upside down

A Vast Sky, 2015

Keith A. Simmonds


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

海嘯 ...
一座城市被衝撞
亂七八糟

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

海啸 ...
一座城市被冲撞
乱七八糟


Bio Sketch

Keith A. Simmonds was born in Barbados and is a citizen of both Trinidad & Tobago and France. He was a  teacher of French language and literature at the secondary-school level in Trinidad & Tobago for twenty-five  years. He is a lover of all types of poetry and has been writing haiku seriously since 2004. Some of his works appear  in Mainichi Daily News, Capoliveri, Cascina Macondo, Simply Haiku, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku,  and Shamrock.
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1 comment:

  1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐April 6, 2019 at 3:42 PM

    L1 sets the theme while the use of hyperbole in Ls 2&3 is visually and emotionally poignant and effective.

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