English Original
first day of spring --
next to saxophone player
young lovers kiss
after all these years
my heart still leaps
Thelma Mariano
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
春天的第一天 --
薩克斯風演奏者旁邊
的年輕戀人擁吻
經過這麼多年
我的心仍然跳動
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
春天的第一天 --
萨克斯風演奏者旁边
的年轻恋人拥吻
经过这么多年
我的心仍然跳动
Bio Sketch
Thelma Mariano is the author of Night Sky: a Selection of Tanka Poetry. She lives in Montreal and has published her tanka in literary journals as well as in various anthologies including Fire Pearls and Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka.
Thelma's tanka effectively builds, poetic phrase (ku)/line by poetic phrase (ku)/line, to a thematically significant and visually and emotionally powerful ending that reveals the theme of the power/influence of "spring" "love."
ReplyDeleteAnd the tanka below could be read as its sequel:
after your goodbye kiss
the taste
of chewed-up blues
played late in the night
on a saxophone
Scent of Jasmine and Brine, 2007
Linda Jeannette Ward