Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

A Haiku about Art

Queen Nefertiti
within the walls of glass
our gazes meet


World Kigo Database (Nefertiti)

Note: The Neues Museum in Berlin keeps the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti (c. 1370 BC – c. 1330 BC), the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. This sculpture draws more than one million visitors annually. For further information, see the Wikipedia entry entitled Nefertiti.