hard to imagine
a life devoid of passion ...
who walks
on ripe strawberries
without getting stained?
Winter Fire, 2016
Luminita Suse
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
很難想像
沒有激情的生活 ...
誰踩
在成熟的草莓上
而沒有被玷染紅色？
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
很难想像
没有激情的生活......
谁踩
在成熟的草莓上
而没有被玷染红色？
Bio Sketch
Luminita Suse is the author of tanka collections A Thousand Fireflies/ Mille Lucioles and Winter Fire, Editions des petits nuages, 2011 and 2016. She is a member of Haiku Canada, The League of Canadian Poets, Tanka Canada, Tanka Society of America. Her poetry appeared in Moonbathing: Gusts, Atlas Poetica, Magnapoets, Red Lights, Ribbons, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka 2010/2011, Haiku Canada Review, Skylark, and others. She got honourable mentions in the The 7th and the 8th International Tanka Festival Competitions and International Haiku Contest, 2014
The emotionally suggestive power of the opening statement in the upper verse is strengthened by the visually striking rhetorical question in the lower verse.
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
-- Maya Angelou
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
-- Ferdinand Foch