Friday, April 13, 2018

Butterfly Dream: Backyard Swing Haiku by Leonardo Lazzari

English Original

the snow
on the backyard swing
year's end

Leonardo Lazzari


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

後院鞦韆上
的雪花
年終之日

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

后院秋千上
的雪花
年终之日


Bio Sketch

Leonardo Lazzari lives in Baronissi, Italy, where he studies at the University of Salerno. He has been writing haiku in both Italian and English since 2015. His haiku have been published in international magazines, and some of them have been honored with awards.

2 comments:

  1. In Ls 1&2, Leonardo employs the cinematic technique of the extreme close-up, which functions as a literary device, synecdoche, to describe an important corner of one's (now snow-covered) backyard world of laughter and pleasure while L3 effectively enhances the tone and mood of the poem.

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  2. Dear Chen-ou Liu, thank you very much for your comment!

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