river of stars
in the pond
i scoop up
Orion’s belt and tie it
around my heart
A Solitary Woman, 2013
Pamela A. Babusci
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
池塘裡
的一條星河
我撈起獵戶座的腰帶
並把它繫在
我的心上
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
池塘里
的一条星河
我捞起猎户座的腰带
并把它系在
我的心上
Bio Sketch
Pamela
A. Babusci is an internationally award winning haiku, tanka poet and
haiga artist. Some of her awards include: Museum of Haiku Literature
Award, International Tanka Splendor Awards, First Place Yellow Moon
Competition (Aust) tanka category, First Place Kokako Tanka
Competition,(NZ) First Place Saigyo Tanka Awards (US), Basho Festival
Haiku Contests (Japan). Pamela has illustrated several books,
including: Full Moon Tide: The Best of Tanka Splendor Awards, Taboo Haiku, Chasing the Sun, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, and A Thousand Reasons 2009. Pamela was the founder and now is the solo Editor of Moonbathing: a journal of women’s tanka; the first all women’s tanka journal in the US.
Juxtaposed with this evocative image of a "river of stars" and empowered by the mytho-cultural significance of Orion, the shift (from the natural to the human, from the mythological to the inner...) in the last line adds emotional weight and psychological depth to the tanka.
ReplyDeletemany thx for your commentary on my tanka!
ReplyDeleteyou are most kind! blessings, pamela