English Original
if I leave
this colorful world
before you ...
look for me in a clear rain,
in the dew on a rose
Editor's Choice, Gusts, 17, Spring/Summer 2013
Carole MacRury
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
如果在你之前
我離開這個多彩多姿
的世界 ...
你可以在清晰的雨中，
一朵玫瑰的露珠中尋找我
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
如果在你之前
我离开这个多彩多姿
的世界 ...
你可以在清晰的雨中，
一朵玫瑰的露珠中寻找我
Bio Sketch
Carole MacRury resides in Point Roberts, Washington, a unique peninsula and border town that inspires her work. She is the author of In the Company of Crows: Haiku and Tanka Between the Tides (Black Cat Press, 2008, 2nd Printing, 2018) and The Tang of Nasturtiums, an award-winning e-chapbook (Snapshot Press 2012).
Carole's tanka effectively builds, poetic phrase (ku)/line by poetic phrase (ku)/line, to a thematically significant and visually and emotionally powerful ending that reveals the thought-provoking theme of [the bereaved's] life after loss and [the departed's] relationship after death: Death may be the end of a life, but not a relationship.
ReplyDeleteAnd it might be interesting to do a comparative reading of Carole's another tanka:
a light rain
upon leaf mulch --
an old grief
mingles with the scent
of late autumn
Simply Haiku, 7:2, Summer 2009