Butterfly Dream: Wind Chime Song Haiku by Ellen Compton

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. 

Poetic Musings: Turn Sign and Wild Lilies Haiku by Ellen Compton

missing the turn sign

                                    missing the turn

                                                                wild lilies

Woodnote, 30, 1996

Ellen Compton

Commentary: The indention on L1 could imply that "missing the turn sign" is unintentional, and the layout of Ls 2&3 are the result.

And unexpected yet visually and emotionally evocative L3 makes Ls 1&2 nothing but beautiful mistakes.

Butterfly Dream: Turn Sign and Wild Lilies Haiku by Ellen Compton

English Original

missing the turn sign

                                    missing the turn

                                                                wild lilies

Woodnote, 30, 1996

Ellen Compton

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

錯過轉彎標誌

                          錯過轉機

                                            野百合

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

错过转弯标志

                          错过转机

                                             野百合

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. 

Butterfly Dream: Gathering Dusk Haiku by Ellen Compton

English Original

gathering dusk ...

a ripple in the meadow

where the fox goes

Gathering Dusk, 2015

Ellen Compton

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

漸暗的黃昏 ...

草地上一波波漣漪

狐狸去哪兒

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

渐暗的黄昏 ...

草地上一波波涟漪

狐狸去哪儿

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. 

Butterfly Dream: Fragrance Haiku by Ellen Compton

English Original

whispers of a fragrance

my sister loved

evening in spring

First Prize, 2010 Betty Drevniok Award 

Ellen Compton

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

往昔我妹妹喜愛

的香水耳語

春天的傍晚

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

往昔我妹妹喜爱

的香水耳语

春天的傍晚

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. 

Butterfly Dream: Driftwood Haiku by Ellen Compton

English Original

driftwood gathering …

over the whispering surf

cries of geese

Modern Haiku, 23:3, Fall 1991

Ellen Compton

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

浮木堆聚 …

一群鵝的呼叫聲

覆蓋過海浪的耳語

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

浮木堆聚 …

一群鹅的呼叫声

覆盖过海浪的耳语

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.