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

comments:

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

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