English Original
driftwood gathering …
over the whispering surf
cries of geese
Modern Haiku, 23:3, Fall 1991
Ellen Compton
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
浮木堆聚 …
一群鵝的呼叫聲
覆蓋過海浪的耳語
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
浮木堆聚 …
一群鹅的呼叫声
覆盖过海浪的耳语
Bio Sketch
Ellen Compton was an award-winning haiku poet with a background in visual and theatre arts. Her haiku collection, Gathering Dusk, received a Snapshot Press Book Award. And she was an editor emerita of The Red Moon Anthology series and a founding member of Towpath. Ellen credited her childhood in the Ohio River Valley for her deep love of the natural world and for her awareness of its fragility.
The jux. of a pile of driftwood on the shore and cries of geese overlapping whisper of waves is multi-sensually effective.
ReplyDeleteA fine mood haiku!
And the haiku below could be read as a sequel to Ellen's:
autumn sea ...
the driftwood shapes
of old grief
The Heron's Nest, 19:2, June 2017
Rebecca Drouilhet