Sunday, November 24, 2024

Butterfly Dream: Mt. Fuji Haiku by Natalia Kuznetsova

English Original

you and I
climbing Mt. Fuji ...
next lifetime 
         
Haiku Dialogue, August 8, 2024

Natalia Kuznetsova


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

你和我
攀登富士山 ...
下輩子

Chinese Translation (Simplified) 

你和我
攀登富士山 ...
下辈子


Bio Sketch

Living in Moscow, Russia, Natalia Kuznetsova is a teacher of English and freelance interpreter. Before discovering the haiku world, she wrote poetry in Russian. She started writing tanka and mostly haiku in English in 2007, and participated in numerous competitions worldwide and won some awards. She contributes regularly to World Haiku ReviewAsahi Haikuist NetworkDaily HaikuPoetry Pea and other traditional and on-line publications. She was included on the list of "European Top 100 Most Creative Haiku Authors" from 2010 to 2023.

1 comment:

  1. Ls 1&2 set the theme and mood while unexpected yet thematically significant L3 is layered with multiple meanings, emotional and symbolic.

    And it might be interesting to do a thematic comparison reading of the following traditionally Mt. Fuji-themed haiku:

    a snail stretching
    after summer rain
    Mount Fuji

    seashores, 4, 2020

    Chen-ou Liu

    little snail
    inch by inch, climb
    Mount Fuji

    Issa

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