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: Doe and I Haiku by Michele Root-Bernstein
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*English Original*
evening hush
the doe and I
in one regard
*Modern Haiku*, 43:3, Autumn 2012
Michele Root-Bernstein
*Chinese Translation (Traditional)...