English Original
cell tower zone
I know the sparrow
by a ringtone
Canada Haiku Review, February 2019
Srinivasa Rao Sambangi
I know the sparrow
by a ringtone
Canada Haiku Review, February 2019
Srinivasa Rao Sambangi
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
手機信號塔區
聽到鈴聲我知道
是一隻麻雀
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
手机信号塔区
听到铃声我知道
是一只麻雀
Bio Sketch
Srinivasa Rao Sambangi, a Master Black Belt in Six Sigma, is currently working in a Pharma Company in Hyderabad, India. His haiku are regularly published in all the leading haiku journals.
L1 sets the scene while Ls 2&3 show a good example of the way we interact with the life world through the mediation of specific technologies. In the case of the speaker of this haiku, it's a cellphone, a portal to the worlds, physical and virtual, past and present, inner and outer, ...
ReplyDeleteAnd it might be interesting to do a comparative reading of the following haiku:
bare hills
the horizon looped
between post and wire
Equal First Place, 2010 Jack Stamm Award
Jo McInerney