English Original
robin's egg
on the ground
fractured sky
Birdsong Before the Earth Falls Silent, 2019
Martha Magenta
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
知更鳥的蛋
掉落在地面上
破碎的天空
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
知更鸟的蛋
掉落在地面上
破碎的天空
Bio Sketch
Martha Magenta lived in England, UK. Her haiku and tanka has appeared in a number of journals, and anthologies. She was awarded Honourable Mentions for her haiku in The Fifth Annual Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards, 2017, and in the 71st Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest, 2017, and for her tanka in UHTS “Fleeting Words” Tanka Contest 2017.
The shift of POV in L3, which shows the concrete impact of Ls 1&2, makes this haiku about the "loss of life," as implied from Ls 1&2, poignantly fresh and effective.
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