Friday, August 7, 2020

Butterfly Dream: Well-Thumbed Book Haiku by Neal Whitman

English Original

chemotherapy
photographs of the Taj Mahal
in a well-thumbed book

World Monument Fund Semi-Finalist, 2013

Neal Whitman


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

化學治療
一本精心編寫的書中
泰姬陵的照片

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

化学治疗
一本精心编写的书中
泰姬陵的照片 


Bio Sketch

Neal Whitman lives with his wife, Elaine, in Pacific Grove, California, where he is a docent at Point Pinos Lighthouse. Visitors who come there from near and far inspire him to write poetry that takes the “particular" to convey the “universal". Neal is Vice President of the United Haiku and Tanka Society.

1 comment:

  1. The contrasts between the visuals, moods, thematic concerns depicted in the two parts (L1 and Ls 2&3) of the haiku are poignantly effective, and what's left unsaid is more potent than what's stated.

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