Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Handprint Bruise Haiku by Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo

English Original

a blood moon ...
the handprint bruise
on her chest

Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

血月...
她胸口
的掌印

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

血月...
她胸口
的掌印


Bio Sketch

Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo is a self-published Filipino author of Twin deLights: Haikuna Matata and Hainaku! It's Pundemic! I am BalotAcovida dito. Her poetry has been published in anthologies and journals like The Haiku Foundation, PresenceMainichi, ESUJ-H, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal.

1 comment:

  1. The symbolically rich moon with visually striking, reddish hue in L1 enhances the tone and mood of Ls 2&3, mostly likely about woman abuse.

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

    wolf moon …
    with monosyllabic words
    she answers the question

    Magnapoets, 8, July 2011

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