Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Butterfly Dream: Well-Thumbed Book Haiku by Neal Whitman

English Original

chemotherapy
photographs of the Taj Mahal
in a well-thumbed book

World Monument Fund Semi-Finalist, 2013

Neal Whitman 


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

化學治療
在一本經常翻閱的書中
一些泰姬陵的照片

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

化学治疗
在一本经常翻阅的书中
一些泰姬陵的照片


Bio Sketch

Neal Whitman lives with his wife, Elaine, in Pacific Grove, California, where he is a docent at Point Pinos Lighthouse. Visitors who come there from near and far inspire him to write poetry that takes the “particular" to convey the “universal". Neal is Vice President of the United Haiku and Tanka Society.

1 comment:

  1. The contrasts, thematic, visual, and emotional, between the two parts of the haiku are fresh and poignantly effective. And the modifier, "well-thumbed," adds emotional weight and psychological depth to the haiku.

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