Thursday, September 11, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Rainbow Lorikeets Haiku by Keitha Keyes

English Original

a flash
of rainbow lorikeets --
sunset fire

Echidna Tracks,  8, 2022

Keitha Keyes 


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

一閃而逝
的彩虹吸蜜鸚鵡 --
日落之火

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

一闪而逝
的彩虹吸蜜鹦鹉 --
日落之火


Bio Sketch

Keitha Keyes lives in Sydney, surrounded by antique irons and ship models. She enjoys writing  tanka, haiku, senryu, cherita and related genres. Her work is published in many journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas.

1 comment:

  1. Enhanced by the cinematic zoom-out technique, a flock of rainbow lorikeets swiftly flying (Ls 1& 2) against the sunset (L3) is vividly alluring, and the concluding word, "fire," which is used to enhances both the red color of rainbow lorikeets and that of the sunset, makes this haiku fresh and visually and emotionally effective.

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