Butterfly Dream: Migrating Songs Haiku by Pravat Kumar Padhy

English Original

dune after dune the migrating songs

Presence, 60, 2018

Pravat Kumar Padhy

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

穿越一個又一個的沙丘, 候鳥的歌聲

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

穿越一个又一个的沙丘, 候鸟的歌声

Posted by Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 at 4:47 PM

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Anonymous February 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM

The concluding word, songs (not bird name), makes this one-line haiku multi-sensorily and emotionally effective.

And my haiku below could be read as a sequel (about post-migration) to Pravat's:

the sweep

of wind-sculpted sand dunes

this loss, and yet ...

haikuNetra, 1:4, 2023

https://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2024/02/butterfly-dream-migrating-songs-haiku.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR1_iT_IBkLCwPLzm2C_dwWiQEd_87ekqXCS5dagdY2xGeGyKRlVJ0zZds4

 

Awaiting  Rainbow

By Pravat Kumar Padhy

Ripples of clouds

gather on the horizon

the early morning sun

about to shine

the waves of my dream

 

Gentle breeze

over the pristine river  

a sudden storm

uproots the tree laden with hope

filling the void with shivers of cold

                                       

An art of love

of the bright sculpture

near the shore

as though the waves of passion

climb up only to break and return

 

Morning zephyr

across the tall grass field

whispers something 

I could feel

in my loneliness the urge within

 

The touch  

of springtide I miss

on my thirsty lips

the winter evening continues

to scrub the splintered memories

 

A crescent moon

at midnight edge …

I walk alone

rewinding the time

of my vanished dream

 

Still along

the weathered trail

solemnly I wish   

the new sun hitherto to shine

for the lone tree to bloom again

The Daily Verse, The Wise Owl, Feb 2024 (Ed. Rachna Singh)

 

 

children cross one bridge and the other migratory birds

Editors’ Choice, Nominated for The Haiku Reader, Whiptail, issue 2: 2022 (Eds. GRIX and Kat Lehmann)

Sea Change An Anthology of single-Line Poems, Whiptail Press and Red Moon Press, 2024 (Eds. Kat Lehmann and Robin Smith)