English Original
all that remains …
our backyard eucalypt
a shell
branches, leaves, laughter
carried away by storms
Kokako, 28, 2018
Marilyn Humbert
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
如今所有剩下的 …
我們後院的桉樹
外殼
樹枝，樹葉，笑聲
被暴風雨吹走
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
如今所有剩下的 …
我们后院的桉树
外壳
树枝，树叶，笑声
被暴风雨吹走
Bio Sketch
Marilyn Humbert lives in the Northern suburbs of Sydney NSW Australia. Her tanka and haiku appear in international and Australian journals, anthologies and online. Her free verse poems have been awarded prizes in competitions and some have been published.
Marilyn's heart-wrenching tanka effectively builds, poetic phrase/line by poetic phrase/line, to a visually and emotionally powerful ending that reveals the theme of destruction (caused by the forces of nature, L5).
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