English Original
ashes to ashes ...
clinging to the fingers
yellowish clay
The Heron's Nest, 1:4, 1999
David Cobb
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
塵歸塵 ...
淡黃色泥土
緊貼著手指
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
尘归尘 ...
淡黄色泥土
紧贴着手指
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."
L1 sets the theme and mood while visually evocative and symbolically rich Ls 2&3 add emotional weight and psychological depth to this death haiku:
ReplyDeleteAnd the following emotionally contrasting haiku could be read as a presequl and a sequel to David's :
scattering his ashes
the moon
in bits and pieces
First Prize, 1993 Harold G. Henderson Award
Sylvia Forges-Ryan
driving home --
nobody to hold
the ashes
light packing, 2020
Elmedin Kadric