English Original
self-isolation
tea leaves float
to the surface
Stardust Haiku, 40, April 2020
Marilyn Humbert
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
自我隔離
茶葉飄浮
到茶水的表面
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
自我隔离
茶叶飘浮
到茶水的表面
Bio Sketch
Marilyn Humbert lives in the Northern suburbs of Sydney NSW Australia. Her tanka and haiku appear in international and Australian journals, anthologies and online. Her free verse poems have been awarded prizes in competitions and some have been published.
L1 sets the theme and mood while the result of this tea leaf reading of Ls 2&3 is left to the reader's imagination and relfection.
ReplyDeleteWhat's left unsaid is at least as potent as what's stated in the haiku
And the following haiku could be read as a sequel to Marilyn's:
tea leaves settle --
the mess of his life
in a chipped cup
Presence, 23 May 2004
Marian Olson