English Original
drip by drip
the moonlight lengthens
in the icicle
Snow on the Water, 1998
David Cobb
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
一滴接著一滴
反映在冰柱中的月光
變得細長了
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
一滴接着一滴
反映在冰柱中的月光
变得细长了
Bio Sketch
David Cobb was a British educational writer and champion of English-language haiku and haibun genres. He founded the British Haiku Society in 1990 and served as its president from 1997 to 2002. He won four Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards, and the 1997 collection of haibun, Spring Journey to the Saxon Shore, established him as the "initiator of the haibun in Britain."
This is a fine example of shasei (sketch from life) haiku infused with visually and emotionally evocative imagery.
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