Thursday, July 31, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Midnight Banter Haiku by Adjei Agyei-Baah

English Original

midnight banter
the drunken farmer
and a scarecrow

Scaring Crow, 2022

Adjei Agyei-Baah


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

午夜開玩笑
醉酒的農夫
和稻草人

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

午夜开玩笑
醉酒的农夫
和稻草人


Bio Sketch

Adjei Agyei-Baah (June 29, 1977 -- December 18, 2023) was the co-founder of the Africa Haiku Network and The Mamba and author of afriku: haiku and Senryui from Ghana, 2016, Finding the Other Door, 2021 and Scaring Crow, 2022. 

1 comment:

  1. L1 sets the theme and mood while unexpected yet visually fresh and funny Ls 2&3 enhance the hai (comic) espect of the haiku.

    And it might be interesting to do a thematic comparison reading of my poem below:

    watching an old man
    talk to the bare tree ...
    I feel less alone

    Failed Haiku, 1:11, November 2016

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