Butterfly Dream: Turn Sign and Wild Lilies Haiku by Ellen Compton

English Original

missing the turn sign

                                    missing the turn

                                                                wild lilies

Woodnote, 30, 1996

Ellen Compton

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

錯過轉彎標誌

                          錯過轉機

                                            野百合

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

错过转弯标志

                          错过转机

                                             野百合

Bio Sketch

Ellen Compton was an award-winning haiku poet with a background in visual and theatre arts. Her haiku  collection, Gathering Dusk, received a Snapshot Press Book Award. And she was an editor emerita of The Red Moon Anthology series and a founding member of Towpath. Ellen credited her childhood in the Ohio River Valley for her deep love of the natural world and for her awareness of its fragility.