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

Sunday, February 27, 2011

A Haiku

budding white rose...
did Sophie cling to the rope
God threw her?


World Kigo Database (Sophie Scholl)

Note: Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother Hans. As a result, they were both executed by guillotine.

Since the 1970s, Scholl has been celebrated as one of the great German heroes who actively opposed the Third Reich during the Second World War. For further information, please read the Wikipedia entry entitled Sophie Scholl.