Friday, November 15, 2024

Butterfly Dream: Dawn Combo Haiku by Adjei Agyei-Baah

English Original

dawn combo
the pop of my porridge
with birdsong
 
Songbirds, 2022

Adjei Agyei-Baah


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

黎明組合餐
我的稀飯的啵啵聲
伴隨著鳥鳴聲

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

黎明组合餐
我的稀饭的啵啵声
伴随着鸟鸣声


Bio Sketch

Adjei Agyei-Baah (June 29, 1977 -- December 18, 2023) was the co-founder of the Africa Haiku Network and The Mamba and author of afriku: haiku and Senryui from Ghana, 2016, Finding the Other Door, 2021 and Scaring Crow, 2022. 

2 comments:

  1. Unexpected yet multi-sensorily evocative L3 not only makes this haiku deliciously fresh and emotionally effective, but also successfully strips off this commerciality of "combo," purifying and beautifying it with a dawn chorus.

    And my tanka below could be read as its sequel:

    birdsongs
    at morning lightfall
    alone
    in the thatched hut
    of an everyday mind

    Special Commendation for Embodying Sanford-Style
    2021 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest

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    1. A real haiku’s gotta be as simple as porridge and yet make you see the real thing

      -- Jack Kerouac, "The Dharma Bums, " p.59

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