Saturday, January 25, 2020

Butterfly Dream: Crash of Thunder Haiku by Patricia Prime

English Original

crash of thunder
the cat follows the dog
under the bed

HSA Members’ Anthology, 2018

Patricia Prime


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

轟隆雷聲
一隻貓尾隨一隻狗
躲在床下

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

轰隆雷声
一只猫尾随一只狗
躲在床下 


Bio Sketch

Patricia Prime is the editor of the New Zealand haiku magazine Kokako, one of the editors of Contemporary Haibun Online and she writes reviews for Atlas Poetica, Takahe, Kokako and other magazines. She is one of the judges for GEPPO and Gusts. Patricia recently published a collection of her poems.

1 comment:

  1. Patricia's haiku effectively builds, line by line, to an unexpected yet delightfully amusing/humorous ending: the cat and the dog can get along in a "time of crisis."

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