English Original
river kingfisher
a splash of blue
in the cloud
Birdsong Before the Earth Falls Silent, 2019
Martha Magenta
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
一隻河翠鳥
在雲彩中飛濺
的一片藍
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
一只河翠鸟
在云彩中飞溅
的一片蓝
Bio Sketch
Martha Magenta lived in England, UK. Her haiku and tanka had appeared in a number of journals, and anthologies. She was awarded Honourable Mentions for her haiku in The Fifth Annual Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards, 2017, and in the 71st Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest, 2017, and for her tanka in UHTS “Fleeting Words” Tanka Contest 2017.
Enhanced by the technique of imagistic fusion, the picture of this river kingfisher (L1) flapping its wings (in Ls 2&3) is visually and emotionally evocative.
ReplyDeleteA fine imagistic shasei haiku.