English Original
city bus stop ...
a boy squats in the shadow
of his pregnant mother
Grand Prix, 2012 Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award
Tomislav Maretić
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
城市公交車站 ...
一個男孩蹲在懷孕母親
的陰影裡
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
城市公交车站 ...
一个男孩蹲在怀孕母亲
的阴影里
Bio Sketch
Tomislav Maretić (1951) is a physician and an infectious disease specialist, and he has been working for almost 40 years in University Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Zagreb. He has been writing haiku for forty years. His haiku have received several awards and have been published in several journals and magazines.
L1 sets the urban scene while Ls 2&3 describe the pregnant silence between a boy and his mother.
ReplyDeleteA middle-of-the-story haiku infused with emotionally evocative and symbolically rich imagery!