NeverEnding Story - First English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and Tanka Blog

English Original

New Year's eve --
the wind returns
my old hat

Ardea, 5, 2015

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

除夕夜 --
和風送回
我的舊帽子

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

除夕夜 --
和风送回
我的旧帽子

" L1 establishes the thematic context while a humorous twist in L3 not only provides a "scent link" (in Basho's sense of the phrase) to L1, but also prepares the reader to usher in the new year.

A understated haiku with an aesthetic focus on the "hai."
                                                                                                         Chen-ou Liu
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