Friday, October 8, 2021

Butterfly Dream: Cemetery and Shadows Haiku by Tomislav Maretić

English Original

at the cemetery
by moonlight... talking
with shadows

The Heron's Nest, 17:2, June 2015

Tomislav Maretić

 
Chinese Translation (Traditional)

站在墓地旁
月光之下... 與一群影子
交談

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

站在墓地旁
月光之下... 与一群影子
交谈
 
 
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.
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5 comments:

  1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐October 8, 2021 at 9:42 AM

    Enhanced by the effective use of a midline break, the buildup to the last line is visually and psychologically effective.

    A fine example of haiku noir.

    Visit "To the Lighthouse: Haiku Noir," http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2014/07/to-lighthouse-haiku-noir.html, for more scholarly references and examples.

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    1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐October 8, 2021 at 11:14 AM

      It might be interesting to do a comparative reading of my haiku below:

      graveyard visit ...
      our shadows widened
      by silence

      Selected Haiku, 2016 Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku Contest

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    2. Tomislav MaretićOctober 9, 2021 at 5:29 AM

      Thank you very much, mr. Chen-ou Liu!!

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  2. Mona BediOctober 8, 2021 at 1:14 PM

    Hi, how do I submit my haiku to your blog?

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    1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐October 8, 2021 at 2:25 PM

      See the submission guidelines, accessed at http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2020/01/neverending-story-anthology-submission.html

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