One Man’s Maple Moon: January Gale Tanka by J. Zimmerman

English Original

January gale
another roof slate    
cracks off --
I can't stand it
that you're gone

American Tanka, 18, 2009

J. Zimmerman


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

一月大風
另一個屋頂石板
斷裂 --
我無法忍受
你走了的事實

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

一月大风
另一个屋顶石板
断裂 --
我无法忍受
你走了的事实


Bio Sketch

J. Zimmerman's tanka have been published in North America, Australia, and Europe. She wrote The Tanka Revision Workbook for her tanka revision workshop. Her haiku and haibun have been widely published and her haiku will appear in New Resonances 8 (2013), a Red Moon Press anthology of selected haiku poets. A winner of the Mary Lonnberg Smith Poetry Prize, she co-edits Ariadne's Poetry Web

One Man’s Maple Moon: Breakfast Tanka by J. Zimmerman

English Original

thirty years later
holding hands at breakfast    
coffee weaker
pancakes smaller
but the grasp still strong

Eucalypt,  11, 2011         

J. Zimmerman


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

三十年後
手牽手在用早餐
咖啡較淡
煎餅較小
但是緊握彼此雙手

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

叁十年後
手牵手在用早餐
咖啡较淡
煎饼较小
但是紧握彼此双手


Bio Sketch

J. Zimmerman's tanka have been published in North America, Australia, and Europe. She wrote The Tanka Revision Workbook for her tanka revision workshop. Her haiku and haibun have been widely published and her haiku will appear in New Resonances 8 (2013), a Red Moon Press anthology of selected haiku poets. A winner of the Mary Lonnberg Smith Poetry Prize, she co-edits Ariadne's Poetry Web