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

Friday, January 21, 2011

A Haiku about Religion

Kipling wrote, East is East...
a minaret overlooks
St. Mary's parish


World Kigo Database (Rudyard Kipling)

Note: L1 alludes to The Ballad of East and West by Rudyard Kipling

“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
tho' they come from the ends of the earth!”