Friday, February 18, 2022

Butterfly Dream: Little Village Haiku by Nikolay Grankin

English Original

little village
a river between the school
and the cemetery
 
Excellence Award, 8th Setouchi Matsuyama International Photo-Haiku Contest
 
Nikolay Grankin 


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

小村莊
一條河流經學校
和墓地之間

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

小村庄
一条河流经学校
和墓地之间


Bio Sketch

Nikolay Grankin was born in 1964 in Tuapse, Russia; he now lives in Krasnodar in the south of Russia. He is keen on learning English and writing haiku. He has been writing haiku for about eleven years, three of which were spent writing haiku in English.  His haiku have appeared in online and print journals in both Russian and English. His haiku has won several awards in several haiku contests. 

2 comments:

  1. Infused with symbolically contrasting ("school" and "cemetery") and visually and emotionally evocative ("river") imagery of Ls 2&3, a pastoral scene ofL1 is vividly and richly depicted in this shasei (sketch from life) haiku.

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