Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Butterfly Dream: Peacock Haiku by Kirsten Cliff Elliot

English Original

cry of a peacock
I wake up fully clothed
in my pain

Pulse, August 15, 2014

Kirsten Cliff Elliot


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

孔雀的哭喊聲
我一覺醒來全身包裹
在痛苦之中

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

孔雀的哭喊聲
我一覺醒來全身包裹
在痛苦之中


Bio Sketch

Kirsten Cliff Elliot is a New Zealand poet and writer. She works in a high school library and is studying towards a BA in Information and Library Studies. Together with her husband, she blogs at Help! My husband has Asperger’s: Our life on the spectrum’s edge.

1 comment:

  1. Enhanced by this disturbing sound of a peacock's cry,the shift, thematic and emotional, in L3 effectively adds emotional weight to the haiku.

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