English Original
to watch the snow fall
I turn the globe upside down
. . . remembering
my first white Christmas
and a time you still loved me
Eucalypt, 30, 2021
Keitha Keyes
看雪花飄落
我把地球儀顛倒過來
... 想念
我的第一個白色聖誕節
和你仍然愛我的日子
看雪花飘落
我把地球仪颠倒过来
... 想念
我的第一个白色圣诞节
和你仍然爱我的日子
Bio Sketch
Keitha Keyes lives in Sydney, surrounded by antique irons and ship models. She enjoys writing tanka, haiku, senryu, cherita and related genres. Her work is published in many journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas.
The shift, spaciotemporal, thematic, and visual..., in Ls 4&5 makes this Christmas tanka nostalgically poignant, and the globe turned upside down in Ls 1&2 works effctively as a symbol of the speaker's lifeworld now (without his/her loved one).
ReplyDeletegazing
Deleteat snow crystals on the skylight
this Christmas
how small and how large
my world without you