Saturday, April 6, 2019

One Man's Maple Moon: Price-Tag Tanka by Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy

English Original

our house
milling with people
I don't know ...
all those memories
now with a price-tag

A Hundred Gourds, 5:3,  June 201

Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

我的家人
和一群我不認識的人
到處走動 ...
現在所有那些回憶
都貼上價格標籤

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

我的家人
和一群我不认识的人
到处走动 ...
现在所有那些回忆
都贴上价格标签


Bio Sketch

Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy is a psychiatrist from Bengaluru India,  living in England. A trained vocalist and a composer in Indian classical music, he writes in Kannada, Sankethi, Tamil and English languages. His haikai writings have been published in reputed journals and anthologies and won prizes, worldwide. He is currently the Editor of Blithe Spirit, journal of The British Haiku Society.

1 comment:

  1. Shrikaanth's tanka effectively builds, line/poetic phrase by line/poetic phrase, to an unexpected yet emotionally powerful ending that reveals the theme of loss and change.

    The price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings.

    Pittacus Lore, "I Am Number Four"

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