Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Butterfly Dream: Between the Lines Haiku by Debbi Antebi

English Original

my grandfather’s face
we try to read
between the lines

The Heron’s Nest, 18:1, March 2016

Debbi Antebi

 

Chinese Translation (Traditional)

祖父的臉
我們嘗試閱讀
他的絃外之音

Chinese Translation (Simplified)


祖父的脸
我们尝试阅读
他的絃外之音


Bio Sketch

Debbi Antebi exhales oxygen while writing poems. Her work has appeared in a number of print and online journals. She lives in Istanbul, Turkey, with her husband and books

3 comments:

  1. Juxtaposed with the reading of an aged and weathered face in L1, symbolically rich and multilayered L3, "between the lines" (facial lines & wrinkles or lines of verbal text), lifts the poem out of the ordinary, making it highly emotive and relatable.

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  2. I love the texture in this.

    marion

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  3. I like it very much, all the invisibile shine in silence. Tank you

    nanita

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