Thursday, April 1, 2021

Butterfly Dream: Old Mill Haiku by Garry Eaton

English Original

old mill
a wagonload
of fallen leaves

Haikuniverse, Feb. 24 2017

Garry Eaton


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

老舊的碾米廠
一貨車
的落葉

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

老旧的碾米厂
一货车
的落叶


Bio Sketch

Garry Eaton was a Canadian poet from British Columbia. He started writing haiku in 2006 and was published occasionally in the major haiku magazines. He volunteered as the digital librarian for The Haiku Foundation Digital Library.

2 comments:

  1. The shift, thematic, emotional, and visual, in L3 enhances the bleak scene of an abandoned mill [town?!] "synecdochically depicted" in this shasei haiku.

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    1. The following haiku could be read as a prequel to Garry's:

      mill race
      spring sunshine
      pushing the wheel

      A Dictionary of Haiku, 2013

      Jane Reichhold

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