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: No Wars Haiku by Hidenori Hiruta
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*English Original*
Mount Taihei
dreaming of no wars
under the sun
Hidenori Hiruta
*Chinese Translation (Traditional)*
太平山
在陽光下夢想
沒有戰爭
*Chinese Translat...