English Original
last night lightning
this morning
the white iris
Haiku Studio, 1991
Patricia Donegan
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
昨夜閃電
今天早上
白色鳶尾花
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
昨夜闪电
今天早上
白色鸢尾花
Bio Sketch
Patricia Donegan (1945 -- 2023) led a life of creative exploration, meditation, writing, translating and teaching haiku, and teaching haiku. Three of her most famous books of haiku Love Haiku: Japanese Poems of Yearning, Passion & Remembrance (co-translated with Yoshie Ishibashi), Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart, and Chiyo-ni Woman Haiku Master (co-translated with Yoshie Ishibashi). In 2017 she was named the honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives.
L3, the white iris, also known as the cemetery iris, is a species of iris which was planted on graves in Muslim regions, and its symbolic significance is enhanced by L1.
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