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 Review, Asahi Haikuist Network, Daily Haiku, Poetry 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.
Ls 1&2 set the theme and mood while unexpected yet thematically significant L3 is layered with multiple meanings, emotional and symbolic.
ReplyDeleteAnd 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