Butterfly Dream

First English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and Tanka Blog

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refugee tent --
a girl calls a butterfly
by her mom’s name
They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku

Chinese Translation (Traditional)
難民帳篷 --
一位女孩用媽媽的名字
呼喚一隻蝴蝶
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
难民帐篷 --
一位女孩用妈妈的名字
呼唤一只蝴蝶

 "L1 establishes the setting and sociopolitical context while the unexpected yet emotionally poignant last line lifts the haiku out of the ordinary. And the symbolically rich image of a flitting butterfly could offer two different readings".

                               Chen-ou Liu

One Man's Maple Moon: 66

Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka, Volume Four.
Chen-ou Liu has selected one of my tanka for this going to be published Anthology.


a homeless man
who was playing a flute
on the street corner
fell suddenly in the rain --
a donor card in his pocket


A Hundred Gourds, 5:2, March 2016
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Skylark Tanka Journal 6:1, Summer 2018

spleen contaminat
cu hohote de râs -
spitalul
de psihiatrie
gard în gard cu casa mea

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Haiga Online--Tree Challenge--Spring 2018

Photo Haiga by Lavana Kray

"Lavana is from Iasi, Romania. Photographer and writer, her haiku have been widely published. In addition to being a frequent contributor to Haigaonline, she has also appeared in Daily Haiga, and at the World Haiku Association where she has been awarded the status of Master Haiga Artist. In addition, she has been featured three times in NHK's Haiku this Photo galleries 004, 005 and 007. More work may be seen on her blog, Photo-Haiku. We are pleased to have this portfolio of four photo haiga that she sent us in response to our Tree Challenge. See the nuance with which photo and poem explore the association of trees with memory and emotion!"                   Linda Papanicolaou

http://www.haigaonline.com/issue19-1/issue.html

Anunț

Publicația The Heron's Nest a ales unul dintre haikuurile mele trimise în timp, pentru a fi publicat într-o carte despre haiku.

 

birthday -

a gathering of moths

on my paisley shawl

 

aniversare -

întrunire de molii

pe un șal de lână

International Haiku Magazine GINYU No. 78/2018

Edited and commented by Ban'ya Natsuishi

1

wheatstone sound -

the political field

empty of content

x

se ascute coasa -

goală de conținut

sola politicii

2

radioactive cloud -

vanilla  smell

from pastry shop

x

nor radioactiv -

miros de vanilie

de la patiserie

"These two haiku suggest well this world stained by human stupidity" 

Butterfly Dream: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku, Volume IV

Selected by Chen-ou Liu


boatload of refugees --
the wind playing with a doll
on the shore

Third Prize, 2016 European Haiku Prize
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The Bamboo Hut Spring 2018 - Journal of tanshi

no​ ​solution

for​ ​the​ ​ice​ ​bridge

between​ ​us -

a​ ​plow​ ​blade ​​is​ ​cutting

the​ ​arteries​ ​of​ ​the​ ​city 

nici o soluție

pentru podul de gheață

dintre noi -

lama plugului taie

arterele târgului

2

 

the sun          

has left no blade

of grass –

my fresh wounds

lying on a stone

soarele 

nu mi-a lăsat

nici un fir de iarbă -

rănile mele crude

întinse pe o piatră

 3

two boats

drifting at sea

forever bonded -

I anchor for good

in your ghost-port

două bărci

legate împreună

duse de valuri -

ancorez definitiv

în portul tău imaginar 

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