written on Canada Day for new Canadians
breezy sunlight
floods the ceremony room
each new citizen
singing O Canada
in a different tone
NeverEnding Story, July 1 2020
Note: The following is a prequel to the tanka above:
for naturalized Canadians
a giant Maple Leaf
in the ceremony
I answer
to my English name
with a twinge of sadness
Atlas Poetica, 21, 2015
Butterfly Dream: Ant Hill Haiku by Laryalee Fraser
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*English Original*
ant hill ...
all these words searching
for a voice
*Simply Haiku*, 6:3, Autumn 2008
Laryalee Fraser
*Chinese Translation (Traditiona...