One Man's Maple Moon: Twilight Sky Tanka by Pravat Kumar Padhy

 English Original

twilight sky
with floating clouds
a long journey
before I could  travel
the rain-soaked distance

Skylark, 4:1, Summer 2016

Pravat Kumar Padhy

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

微明天空中
飄浮的雲彩
在我開始步上
雨水浸透的路途之前
這是一個漫長的旅程

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

微明天空中
飘浮的云彩
在我开始步上
雨水浸透的路途之前
这是一个漫长的旅程

 Comment by Chen-ou Liu, 28.8.2020

The upper verse sketches a visually and emotionally evocative natural scene while the lower verse puts a special emphasis on the challenges a traveler faces: "long" journey and "rain-soaked" distance.

The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

Matsuo Bashō, "The Narrow Road to the Deep North"

 

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 lockdown--

I drag my shadow away

from the windowpane

 

behind the mask: haiku in the time of Covid-19", 2020 (Ed. Margaret Dornaus)

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cloudy summer

the old woman walks

with shaking shadow

Poetry Pea, June 2020 (Ed. Patricia Mc Guiri)

******

fruit laden--

the old man lightens

his worries

Poetry Pea, June 2020 (Ed.  Patricia Mc Guiri)

 

https://poetrypea.com/series-3-episode-12-ageing/

https://poetrypea.com/youtube-series-3-episode-12-ageing/

 

 

a lone seagull

on  a shore branch

how long it waits

as waves touch and go

as waves touch and go

Tanka Origins, August Edition 2020 (Ed. an’ya)

https://www.tankaanya.com/copy-of-tankaorigins-premier-editio

Editor’s comment: A very memorable tanka by Pravat Kumar Padhy from India. Suddenly, I am  a seagull alone waiting, waiting, waiting on a shore pine branch”. Pravat’s repetition in the final two lines enhances the concept of the tanka greatly, and only a skilled tanka poet could create the feeling Pravat has given readers in this tanka. It's yet another stunning example of his usual fine work!

 

 

flying milky way--

a bevy of cranes between

the sea and the sky

2^nd Prize: Haiku Society of Constanta Haiku Contest, Rumania, Theme: Sea (Nicole Pottier, Maria Grigoriu, Iulia Ralia, Alexandru Patrulescu and Vasile Moldovan), 2019