English Original
shimmering
through light and shadow
wind chime song
Lynx, 16:1, February 2001
Ellen Compton
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
微光一現
穿過光和影
風鈴之歌
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
微光一现
穿过光和影
风铃之歌
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.
This is a fine example of shasei (sketch from life) haiku infused with multi-sensorily vivid, precise and concrete images.
ReplyDeleteAnd it might be interesting to do a thematic comparison reading of my haiku below:
her baby's hands
play the summer breeze
butterfly wind chime
Haikuniverse, July 11th, 2018