Sunday, March 9, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Wren Song Haiku by Elmedin Kadric

English Original

holding off
holding on
wren song

rust, 2023

Elmedin Kadric 


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

延後
堅持 
鷦鷯之歌

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

延后
坚持
鹪鹩之歌


Bio Sketch

Elmedin Kadric was born in Novi Pazar, Serbia, but writes out of Helsingborg, Sweden. His first collection, buying time (2017), was published by Red Moon Press.

1 comment:

  1. Enhanced by syntactical parallelism employed in Ls 1&2, unexpected yet auditorily evocative L3 makes this haiku fresh and emotionally effective.

    And my haiku below could be read as its sequel:

    wren song ...
    the cloudless sky
    in a dewdrop

    Blo͞o Outlier Journal, 3, 2022

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