English Original
pink butterfly
flutters from phlox to foxglove
in search
of winds that help her dance
to fields of dandelions
Bright Stars, 1, 2014
Gary Blankenship
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
一隻粉紅色蝴蝶
從天藍繡球飛掠過毛地黃
正在追尋足夠的大風
幫助她飛舞
到開滿蒲公英的田野
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
一只粉红色蝴蝶
从天蓝绣球飞掠过毛地黄
正在追寻足够的大风
帮助她飞舞
到开满蒲公英的田野
Bio Sketch
Gary Blankenship was a retired federal employee whose avocation was poetry, especially Tang poetry. He was author of A River Transformed: Wang Wei's River Wang Poems as Inspiration, a sometime poet, editor, and publisher of MindFire and its companion, FireWeed.
Enhanced by the use of personification, this "portrait tanka" is a visually and emotionally evocative sketch of a "free-spirited butterfly" dancing in the world of colorful and symbolically rich flowers.
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