Monday, August 14, 2017

Butterfly Dream: Outback Haiku by Marilyn Humbert

English Original

outback
a shooting star
arcs east to west

Paper Wasp, Autumn 2016

Marilyn Humbert


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

澳大利亞內陸
一顆流星由東到西
形成弧狀

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

澳大利亚内陆
一颗流星由东到西
形成弧状


Bio Sketch

Marilyn Humbert lives in the Northern Suburbs of Sydney NSW surrounded by bush. Her pastimes include writing free verse poetry, tanka, tanka prose and related genre. She is the leader of Bottlebrush Tanka Group and member of the Huddle and Bowerbird Tanka Groups. Her tanka appears in Australian and international journals.

1 comment:

  1. Marilyn's riveting haiku works well as a poetic rendition of the establishing shot in a western movie: a shooting star flying against the night sky under which is the remote and usually uninhabited inland regions of Australia.

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