Sunday, July 28, 2019

One Man's Maple Moon: Meditation Tanka by Marilyn Fleming

English Original

each day
at break of dawn
petal by petal
the lotus opens
my meditation

Skylark, Winter 2017

Marilyn Fleming


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

每天
在黎明時分
蓮花花瓣
一片接著一片
開啟了我的冥想

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

每天
在黎明时分
莲花花瓣
一片接着一片
开启了我的冥想


Bio Sketch

Marilyn Fleming is a Wisconsin short form poet and sumi-e haiga artist. Her special interests are Asian forms of poetry (haiku tanka and haibun.) She is widely published in US as well as internationally.  To see some of her recent work, visit  her website or follow her on twitter: @mflem9811
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1 comment:

  1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐July 28, 2019 at 9:25 AM

    Evaluated in the context of Buddhism where the lotus is "symbolic of purity of the body, speech, and mind as while rooted in the mud," fresh and mind-changing Ls 3-5 leave much dreaming room for the reader's imagination/engagement.

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