One Man's Maple Moon: Faint Feeling Tanka by Tony Boehle

English Original

listening to
the Leningrad Symphony
something
like a faint feeling
of guilt within me

Gusts, 22, Fall/Winter 2015

Tony Boehle


Chinese Translation (Traditional)
   
聆聽
列寧格勒交響曲
有一種微弱
的愧疚感覺
在我的內心深處

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

聆听
列宁格勒交响曲
有一种微弱
的愧疚感觉
在我的内心深处


Bio Sketch

Tony Boehle was born in 1983 in Rochlitz, Germany. Currently he lives in Chemnitz, Germany and works as a chemist. Since 2012 he has been writing haiku, tanka, and tanka prose, and is the editor of Germany’s first tanka journal, Einunddreissig

One Man's Maple Moon: Welfare Office Tanka by Tony Boehle

English Original

I sneak back home
from the welfare office
on the sidewalk
chestnuts staring
like a thousand eyes

Tony Boehle


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

從福利辦公室
我偷偷地回家
人行道上的栗子
好像是一千隻眼睛
盯著我

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

从福利办公室
我偷偷地回家
人行道上的栗子
好像是一千只眼睛
盯著我


Bio Sketch

Tony Boehle was born in 1983 in Rochlitz, Germany. Currently he lives in Chemnitz, Germany and works as a chemist. Since 2012 he has been writing haiku, tanka, and tanka prose, and is the editor of Germany’s first tanka journal, Einunddreissig

One Man's Maple Moon: Privilege Tanka by Tony Boehle

English Original

being a German
the privilege
of pronouncing
Beethoven and Dachau
without an accent

The Tanka Journal, 47, 2015

Tony Boehle


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

作為德國人
的特權
我唸   
貝多芬和達豪   
不帶口音

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

作为德国人
的特权
我唸   
贝多芬和达豪   
不带口音

Bio Sketch

Tony Boehle was born in 1983 in Rochlitz, Germany. Currently he lives in Chemnitz, Germany and works as a chemist. Since 2012 he has been writing haiku, tanka, and tanka prose, and is the editor of Germany’s first tanka journal, Einunddreissig